Suzanne Morton, Contested Catch: Lobster, Localism, and Canada’s Atlantic Coast, 1870-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025. 296 pages. ISBN 9781487571825.
Reviewed by Lissa Wadewitz Suzanne Morton argues that local conditions and customs strongly shaped the evolution of Canada’s Atlantic lobster industry and its management by the state. This was a dispersed fishery that frustrated government policing efforts and hampered the central…
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