Open Access'That Glorious Stinking Stuff...': Whale Fishing and the Economic Development of Early Wellington
Author(s) -
Brad Patterson
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0i1.78
Subject(s) - whaling , fishing , whale , settlement (finance) , fishing industry , term (time) , economy , publishing , frontier , fishery , business , geography , political science , archaeology , economics , law , finance , physics , quantum mechanics , payment , biology
Whale fishing was of major economic importance for the New Zealand settlement. The whaling industry helped to ensure the viability of the settlement in the short term and that there were long-term structural legacies for the evolving settler economy.