FALMOUTH – The Sea Education Association will be hosting a public lecture Sunday regarding the history of New England fisheries.
The presentation is specifically titled “Unencumbered by Evidence: Cultural Representations, Industrial Realities, and the 1950s Collapse of New England’s Fisheries.”
It will feature a speech from Dr. Matthew McKenzie, Associate Professor of History at University of Connecticut.
He contends that while conventional wisdom lays the blame for the collapse of New England’s fisheries in the 1960s at the feet of foreign fishing fleets working in Georges Bank, domestic fleets had already done them in.
At that time New England trawlers targeted local haddock stocks for the frozen fish trade. In 1934, in the height of the Depression, the American public saw a very different New England fishing fleet, this one represented by schooners, sail on Washington seeking federal aid.
The talk will explore the connections and disconnects
The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 2 pm at the James L. Madden Center Lecture Hall, in Falmouth.
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