Their Fathers' Work: Casting Nets with the World's Fishermen

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McCloskey's vivid prose puts you right on deck, working like the devil as the decks roll, the spray flies, and the nets are hauled. His love of the boats, the fishermen, and the sea shines through this fascinating tribute to a way of life.
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McCloskey's vivid prose puts you right on deck, working like the devil as the decks roll, the spray flies, and the nets are hauled. His love of the boats, the fishermen, and the sea shines through this fascinating tribute to a way of life.

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A splendid, subtle portrait of the fisherman's lifeþfrom Hokkaido to Norway, Chile to the Java Seaþby McCloskey (Highliners, 1978, etc.). After a stint in the Coast Guard, McCloskey shipped out on his first fishing vessel 20 years ago, and he has evidently been keeping notes on every voyage since, detailing the days and nights of those who pursue one of the most dangerous jobs on Earthþfishing. He has fished for king crab in the Bering Sea in winter, when the crabs are at their plumpest and the sea its nastiest; he has chased cod on the 1,000-year-old foggy and doomed Grand Banks fishery; he experienced the industrial-scale sardine fishery of Chile and the artisan fishing of Indonesia from small wooden boats (no radar here; fish are tracked at night by their phosphorescent wakes). He has spent a good amount of time with the Japanese fleet and shares with them a lust for the delicacies of the deep. And he has served on patrol boats enforcing compliance with the welter of maritime laws. Thus, as McCloskey explains the taking of shrimp and cod and squid, he is also able to speak knowledgeably about ship machinery, fishing ports, trawling and purse seining, the grand Law of the sea and the lesser laws governing salmon catches and whale harvesting, and the continuing havoc wreaked by the Exxon Valdez (ten years later, the herring have not returned, nor have the harlequin duck and pigeon guillemot). And best of all, McCloskey feels and conveys the atavism inherent in hunting the ocean, which he balances with deflating counterpoints. Says one old hand, "It's a livin', b'y, but it ain't much of a life now, is it?" Tales of fishermen at peril in high seas are hugely gripping.What makes McCloskey's book so memorable is that it invests in the everyday lives of fishermen the same compulsive readableness. (color photos, not seen)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780070453470
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
  • Publication date: 3/1/1998
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 370
  • Product dimensions: 6.70 (w) x 9.56 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Meet the Author

William McCloskey is a retired member of the John Hopkins University applied physics laboratory. McCloskey's particular passion is commercial fishing. He began hiring out on sabbaticals and vacations 25 years ago. He has fished all over the world with First and Third world crews of many nationalities. "What such writers as Owen Wister and J. Frank Dobie were to the cowboy, Bill McCloskey may be to the Alaska fisherman."--Anchorage Times. "McCloskey invokes vividly the strenuous but exhilarating life of men against the implecable ocean."--Library Journal. "With all his experiences across space and time, McCloskey occupies a unique position among observers of the world fishing industry. He's been there. He has perspective."--Alaska Fisherman's Journal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Asking for It--Bering Sea

2 It's a Livin'--Georges Bank

3 Rollers--Chignik, Alaska, 1986

4 Atavism--Chignik, Alaska, 1986

5 Encroachments

6 Knee-Deep in Crude and Bullshit--The EXXON Valdez Disaster

7 Turbot Warriors--The Grand Banks

8 Myre Remembered--Norwegians

9 Russians and Spaniards--Flemish Cap, 1996

10 Outporters

11 Plankton Soup--Chile

12 Siwashers--Chiloe Island, Chile

13 Barefoot on the Java Sea

14 Unseen Forces

15 The Unforgiving Bar--Greymouth, New Zealand

16 The Fish Habits of Japan

17 Fencing the Ocean Commons--The Winners and the Anxious Dispossessed

18 Mr. Bigfoot on the Raw-Bacon Circuit--Japan, 1980 and 1988

19 Harpooners--Ayukawa, Central Japan

20 Hanging Genki with the Squidders

21 Floating Cities--Bristol Bay, Alaska

22 Generations--Past Meets Present

23 Dividing and Protecting the Loot

24 No Promises

25 Changes--Count on Nothing

26 Catching Fish

Epilogue

Maps--Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, North Atlantic, Chile, Indonesia, North Pacific

Index

Color photographs follow page 132

Black-and-white photographs appear on pages 42 - 43, 104 - 105, 162 - 163, 208 - 209, 258 - 259, 308 - 309, 354.

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