GEOG222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Overfishing

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG222
• Professor: Amber Silver

Document Summary

Good introduction of the geographic location of atlantic canada. Slides are too bright and clustered with information and images. Would have been nice if the information connected to lobster why was lobster chosen. Good history of discovery, hunting and use of lobster. Canneries closed in 1930s because canada restricted lobster and economy crashed. A boom and bust time period for the fishing industry. 50% increase in the quantity exported from 2011-2016. Us trade war has made canadian lobster in high demand economy and political. Changing environment lobsters" biomass have shifted north over the past couple decades. Integrated management time period of fishing permitted. New species are moving in to the traditional habitat of lobster. Lobsters are moving further north from maine into the atlantic. Global demand for lobster is driving up the market value. Canada is expected to be the largest lobster supplier.