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CENTRE FOR NEWFOUNDLAND STUDIES I

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TRADE . NEWF'ouN'OLANO IN TRANSiT I ON: . THfl_N.EWFOUNOLANO

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. Be~een· 1775. and 1805, .the Newfoundland fishery changed ·from

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~ing primarily •migratory•. - carried ,on by transient~_. fro11 Britain ..;.

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to ~tng _almost completely •sectentllt:"Y.·-- carr~ed on by permanent

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resident~ ·of the tslia,_d, ... · Suc_ti

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fundiaien~l. change called for

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· .ext~sh~ adaptatiq~s .on ~~e.par)of the merchant( a~ ~,rad~~~--'-.,··.

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not onl.{ survived· but actuaJly. expandl!d~i ·By' 1806 .t~etr operation. was ' ·

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lar9er. ~ban it. had been in 1776 and they· contro~-led -a 1arger share of

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merchan'ts had performed uny functions, supplying .the·local planters,· .. //

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the by9'boat inen,· ~nd

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sinaller '~~erchants; _bUt concentrating iato1y ...

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on the

~pe~at1on of

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~essels

and creWs on their . ~

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large

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the changing structUre of ttM! .ftshery

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attr~_~ted to.

the)

speei~~~ - cond_tt~ons

of

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.·war

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th~ tradftfonal d~l-in_ of popul~t1o~. to AMr~ca 'during u~favorible . . . ·.

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periods, ttM! popUlation of the-.'island becalle IIIDre.and IIIOre Per-anent~

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Wt.th the. operations of the migrator fisher,Y ,inteitupted by,.the' ·· ·

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hostilities. the sedentary ltshery

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reduction tn . Production, it had io

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m1gritory ft'shery. ·. for

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· -~ble_ to produc~ · ft ~re c.~ea~ly.

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migratory f~~~~- at the

end

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had allnOSt tOtally disappeared.

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of tlle. ft shery.

RObert. ~n

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0 1. ·· P~uction of tbe Newfoundland Fishery 1771-1783

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