Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1 A Great English Ship Moored Near the Grand Banks
  • Ch. 2. The Cod: A Short History
  • Ch. 3. Botched Science and a Rebel Named Ransom
  • Ch. 4. Foreign Devils
  • Ch. 5. Dragger: and Cod Death
  • Ch. 6. Federal Fisheries: A Sad and Ignoble Sputter into Inconsequentiality
  • Ch. 7. Death in the Outports: A Town Called Fortune
  • Ch. 8. Requiem for the Beothuk
  • Ch. 9. Pacific Salmon: Going the Way of the Grand Banks Cod?
  • Ch. 10. Offshore Oil Is the New Cod
  • Ch. 11. Peter Pearse, Rational Man, and the Prophet Daniel
  • Ch. 12. A Tale of Two Newfoundlands
  • Appendix. The Two-Hundred-Mile Fishing Limit.