At the turn of the sixteenth century, John Cabot and his successors discovered abundant fish stocks in the north west Atlantic waters near Newfoundland. This article accounts for how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century mapping provide another strand of evidence that supplement our knowledge of the subsequent Iberian, French, and British fisheries. Such cartography exhibited significant mutations and innovations in rendering fishing locations, and illustrating fishing practices and fish species. Fishermen’s knowledge must have informed such mapping. The innovation of hydrographical indicators in esthetically appealing maps recognized from an early stage the status of the Grand Banks as a globally important feature of submarine topography. More refined and accurate delineations of its submarine plateaus and other adjacent continental shelves closely followed the development of fishing activities, encompassing both Newfoundland’s nearshore and the Grand Banks themselves. Furthermore, such cartography reflected transformative and reciprocal relationships with commerce and inter-state politics across the North Atlantic.

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16 和 17 世纪纽芬兰大银行地区和邻近北大西洋水域渔业演变的制图透视

十六世纪之交，约翰卡博特和他的继任者在纽芬兰附近的西北大西洋水域发现了丰富的鱼类资源。本文解释了 16 世纪和 17 世纪的测绘如何提供另一条证据，以补充我们对随后的伊比利亚、法国和英国渔业的了解。这种制图在绘制捕鱼地点和说明捕鱼实践和鱼类物种方面表现出显着的变化和创新。渔民的知识必须为这种映射提供信息。具有美学吸引力的地图中水文指标的创新从早期就认识到大银行作为海底地形的全球重要特征的地位。其海底高原和其他相邻大陆架的更精细和准确的划定紧随渔业活动的发展，包括纽芬兰的近岸和大银行本身。此外，这种制图反映了与北大西洋商业和国家间政治的变革性和互惠关系。