You might want to read, "Two Islands: Grand Manan And Sanibel" by Katherine Scherman (1971), one island in the Bay of Fundy (actually an archipelago) with various fishing histories some still working, the other island, off Florida in the US, the first National Wildlife Refuge in the US, though its not an ethnographic study per se but written by a resident of both. Some of my family is from Grand Manan and I had my first cash in hand picking and drying dulse, a red deep depth seaweed, there on Indian Beach in 1967 after a 29 days of fog and rain. Highest tides in the world nearby.
There's a few ethnographies that I recall some from Newfoundland and another from the French "tiny overseas islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon" that may be of interest (dried codfish). Some of the Caribbean ethnographies are interesting such as "Crab Antics: A Caribbean Study of the Conflict Between Reputation and Respectability" in the social anthropology genre.
If you know anyone looking for a fairly new canning factory, there's one in Seal Cove Grand Manan for sale I think belongs to Bumblebee who bought the Connors Brothers (Blacks Harbour, NB) then Brunswick brands. Seal Cove smokehouses there, where they smoke and dry herring in wood sheds, I think have been a part of the "triangle" of trade for many years with the Caribbean, originally settled by "downeasters" from Maine which wasn't a state in the Union until 1820. They say you can hear it still in their voices, unlike "God's Country" up-the-island in North Head and Castalia where the "homestead" was and a few still buried.
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