Ebook: Eating the Ocean: Seafood and Consumer Culture in Canada

The failure of government-funded Canadian seafood marketing in the first half of the twentieth century.

During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb. In Eating the Ocean, Brian Payne explores how government-funded marketing encouraged consumers to increase their seafood consumption, and how this advertising endeavour contributed to the collapse of the nation’s fisheries.