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Catching the Ebb: Drift-Fishing for Life in Cook Inlet
Bert Bender
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Description for Catching the Ebb: Drift-Fishing for Life in Cook Inlet
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; BM; WSXF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 9525.
In a memoir that recounts thirty summers of fishing Alaska's Cook Inlet, Bert Bender describes his parallel careers as a commercial gill-netter and a professor of American literature. His narrative celebrates the fishing life as he knew it; it also explores issues of sustainability in the commercial salmon fishery.Bender started fishing in 1963 with a thirty-foot sailboat converted to gas power; it had a 45-horsepower engine but no equipment for pulling in the net. Over the next decades, the fishery shifted as canneries adapted to new world markets for frozen salmon and fishermen built larger and more powerful boats. Following ... Read more
In a memoir that recounts thirty summers of fishing Alaska's Cook Inlet, Bert Bender describes his parallel careers as a commercial gill-netter and a professor of American literature. His narrative celebrates the fishing life as he knew it; it also explores issues of sustainability in the commercial salmon fishery.Bender started fishing in 1963 with a thirty-foot sailboat converted to gas power; it had a 45-horsepower engine but no equipment for pulling in the net. Over the next decades, the fishery shifted as canneries adapted to new world markets for frozen salmon and fishermen built larger and more powerful boats. Following ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870712968
SKU
V9780870712968
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Ref
99-15
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