| Life in a Fishing Community Contributor(s): Boudreau, Hélène (Author) |
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ISBN: 077875085X ISBN-13: 9780778750857 Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: This title looks at offshore fishing. Around the coast of much of North America, fishing stocks have greatly declined as a result of overfishing, pollution, and global warming. Nova Scotia, in the northeast of Canada, once had a huge fishing industry. In 1753, people from Germany, Switzerland, and France came from Europe to set up colony at Lunenburg on the coast. They soon set up a fishing and shipbuilding industry. The community grew until about 1980, when the fishing industry largely stopped. Since then, the community has had to reinvent itself. It is still largely based on the old industries, but tourism is as important. Lunenburg has a population of about 3500 people. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Lifestyles - Country Life - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - General (see Also Headings Under Family) - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Fish |
| Dewey: 639.209 |
| LCCN: 2009022918 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Series: Learn about Rural Life |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.2" W x 10.7" (0.35 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Nova Scotia - Cultural Region - Canadian - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 133584 Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |