Petty Harbour
Fishing village near St. John’s, Newfoundland. A setting in Bren Smith’s “The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution”: Author’s fishing-village birthplace; origin of his sea life and the community he wants to create jobs for.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution | Bren Smith | setting | Author’s fishing-village birthplace; origin of his sea life and the community he wants to create jobs for |
| Cod | Mark Kurlansky | setting | Kurlansky’s opening and closing village: inshore fishermen tagging cod, then fighting the draggers and the moratorium. |
The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution — Bren Smith (2016)
Source: Original · Readwise highlight
I was born and raised in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, a little fishing village with 14 salt-box houses painted in greens, blues, and reds so that fishermen could find their way home in the fog.
- Role: setting
- In the article: The author opens his story with his birthplace, a small fishing village. He left school at 14 and went to sea from here. Later he notes 40 percent unemployment in his hometown, which motivates his job-creating ocean farming.
- Why it matters: It is the origin of his fishing life and the community he says he works for. Elsewhere the story of cod-collapse and redemption would lose its personal root.
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World — Mark Kurlansky (1997)
Source: Cod · Original · Readwise highlight
Their little village, along with St. John’s in the next cove and the rocky point between them, is the site closest to the part of the North Atlantic fabled throughout this millennium as the cod grounds.
- Role: setting
- In the book: The book opens with Sam Lee, Leonard Stack and Bernard Chafe leaving the wharf before dawn in a trap skiff for the Sentinel Fishery, tagging young cod and cooking fish and brewis aboard. The village banned longlines and gillnets in the late 1940s; its fishermen later take over the local plant as a cooperative and, with Cabot Martin, sue to stop bottom dragging.
- Why it matters: It frames the book as the North American village at the wrong end of a thousand-year fishing spree.