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The Introduction
1.1 Pleran
Chapter I
Renews s a small autpon on the ca~tcoart of Newfoundland's Avaloo Peninsula. 90
kilometres south of the pmvincial capital of St. John's (Figures la and Ibl. It is but one
of many hahourr along Newfwndland's "Southern Shore" (also known in historic timer
a~ the "English Shore") where thecod fishery ha^ been theprimuyeconomic foeus sin=
rhc early yearsaf the European exploilarion of the New World. Although the European
migratory fi~hery har been conductedout of Renews sim the Brrt half of the sixteenth
eenrury. year-round neelement war nM arempled until the early seventeenth century.
Settlement on a long-term or pement biric was largely thedomain of fishemn and
their familler fmm the Wea Counlry porn of swthwnam England. Fishing plantations
rprung up in a number of harbours along the Sovthem Shore. where fishermen crploited
[he rich inrhore fishing gmundr. Salting and drying their catches in chs summer months
[here entrepreneun, many accompanied by their families. would sell the dred codfish
and related byprducts in the European market.
By choosing to live m rhe Newfoundland. there induruiou folk, wilh hired crews
manning their firhlng boars, stood to gain hom alooger fishing sewn and undertook
recandvy sourns of incorns ouch as baa1 building. wood cutting and uapping. Tkne