Abstract
The sedentary fishery of the French residing in North America became an element of support for France’s imperial metropolitan policy as it established claims on disputed fishing areas. As a result, France engaged in a strategy of appropriation of the New World – a policy affirmed diplomatically by François I and defended by his successors. This article establishes how the colonial sedentary fishery helped lead to the appropriation of the New World by France until this fishery was abandoned at the end of the French Regime.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.