Article ID: CBB938214822

Cartographical Perspectives on the Evolution of Fisheries in Newfoundland’s Grand Banks Area and Adjacent North Atlantic Waters in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2019)

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At the turn of the sixteenth century, John Cabot and his successors discovered abundant fish stocks in the north west Atlantic waters near Newfoundland. This article accounts for how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century mapping provide another strand of evidence that supplement our knowledge of the subsequent Iberian, French, and British fisheries. Such cartography exhibited significant mutations and innovations in rendering fishing locations, and illustrating fishing practices and fish species. Fishermen’s knowledge must have informed such mapping. The innovation of hydrographical indicators in esthetically appealing maps recognized from an early stage the status of the Grand Banks as a globally important feature of submarine topography. More refined and accurate delineations of its submarine plateaus and other adjacent continental shelves closely followed the development of fishing activities, encompassing both Newfoundland’s nearshore and the Grand Banks themselves. Furthermore, such cartography reflected transformative and reciprocal relationships with commerce and inter-state politics across the North Atlantic.

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Authors & Contributors
Schilder, Günter
Bolster, W. Jeffrey
Kok, Hans
Earle, Thomas Blake
Arianne Sedef Urus
Moreira, Rafael
Concepts
Cartography
Maps; atlases
Fisheries; fishing
Environmental history
Navigation
Nautical charts
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
Renaissance
Places
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
Atlantic world
Newfoundland (Canada)
Netherlands
United States
Institutions
Dutch East India Company
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