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Oak Island research archive: History of Fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic: The 500-Year Perspective (AI-assisted historical reconstruction, not a photograph)

History of Fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic: The 500-Year Perspective

Academic paper providing the long historical context of Atlantic fisheries, useful for situating European pre-contact and early-contact activity around Nova Scotia.

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