Upper Great Lakes of the United States (Geographic Keyword)
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The Pound Net Stake Fishery of the Upper Great Lakes of Michigan: An Initial Exploration (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. People have fished the Great Lakes of the United States and Canada for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. In the mid-nineteenth century a new way of procuring fish reached the Upper Great Lakes using pound net stakes. While historic documentation exists, little study has been conducted on the...