Fishing Up North de Brad Matsen

Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters

Brad Matsen

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2012

This new edition contains new stories and updates from the super-heated days when fishing fleets turned king crab into fortunes, to the annual circus of Bristol Bay's monster salmon runs, to the bucolic life of the open-ocean trawler, the true stories in Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters" captures the flavor of the modern fisherman's life and fortunes in the waters off Alaska. You'll find firsthand accounts of frightening weather, good fishing, terrible fishing, great days, and sweet living from the decks of crabbers, trawlers, longliners, trollers, and gillnetters. This book and others inspired film crews to trek to Alaska and cover the crabbing seasons for reality TV shows. Commercial fishing's home ports --- Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Naknek, Cordova, Petersburg, Sitka, and Seattle --- are classic fishing towns, where docks, bars, and even quiet living merge in colorful portraits about life on the last frontier.

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Prelude: Getting Lucky pg 7; Map pg 10; Ch 1, The Beast of Ugly Seasons - King Crabbing, Dutch Harbor pg 13; Ch 2, Talking Price and the Cruel Sixteen - Salmon Gillnetting, Bristol Bay pg 25; Ch 3, The Billion-dollar Bottomfish Dream - Groundfish Trawling pg 47; Ch 4 Kenny and the Council - Westward Hilton Hotel, Anchorage pg 61, Ch 5, Flying Fish and the Death of a Plane at Egegik - Salmon setnetting - Bristol Bay pg 81; Ch 6 A Beautiful Place to Be - Salmon Trolling, Southeast Alaska pg 107; Ch 7, Fishing with Modest Ambition - Codfish Trawling, Kodiak pg 129; Ch 8, Fishing the Flats, Salmon Gillnetting - Prince William Sound pg 147; Ch 9, The Dream Comes True on the Chain - Pollock Trawling, Dutch Harbor pg 161; Ch 10, The Resurrection of The Rebecca B - Codfish longlinging, Gulf of Alaska pg 177; Ch 11, Kelping for Crude - The Exxon Valdez Spill pg 195; Ch 12, Derby Days, Sleepless Nights - Halibut Longlining, Southeast Alaska pg 209; Ch 13. Salmon in the Trees - Salmon Spawning, Alexander Archipelago, pg 224.

Recenzii

"Brad Matsen is a polished writer with a quirky sense of humor and an uncanny knack for the precise metaphor."
---Homer [Alaska] News.

An intimate look at what it is like to spend your life chasing fish. Matsen's experience inside the industry gives a hard look at the reality of long hours, tight quarters and the gamble of the catch. Tight prose pack a lot of information.
---Urbaneye, Amazon

Matsen draws together some of the articles he published in magazines such as Alaska Fisherman's Journal, National Fisherman, Audubon, and Oceans to present an insider's knowledge of commercial fishing. From the slavish work of harvesting and processing to the tremendous profits that are possible, but never guaranteed, Matsen articulates the contentious debates surrounding fishing in Alaska. Along with stories on what constitutes over-fishing, whether foreigners have a right to get a piece of the action, and the Exxon Valdez disaster, Matsen introduces the various characters who live the fishing life. Though well written, the book has extended discussions of specific equipment and different types of fish that will limit its appeal. Recommended for libraries whose constituents are interested in fishing.
---(Faces of Fishing, Monterey Bay Aquarium Fdn., 1997) Kathleen A. Shanahan, American Univ. Lib., Washington, DC

Notă biografică

Brad Matsen has written about the sea and its inhabitants for forty years in books, film scripts, essays and magazine articles. Author of The New York Times Best Sellers: Titanic's Last Secrets: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss; and Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King as well as eight other books including Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea and Dancing to the Fossil Record and The Incredible Ocean Adventure series for children. He has also written a television series, and is a speaker on global environmental issues. He has written hundreds of magazine articles for Mother Jones, Audubon, Natural History and many other publications.

Comentariile autorului

The good luck that frees a man or woman to fish for a living came to me at midlife when I bought a barely serviceable boat, sailed from my home in Juneau, Alaska, and went salmon trolling. My business partner and I did everything wrong, including tying our gear on backward for the first two weeks, but we were euphoric for the whole season and, eventually, even caught enough fish to make it pay.

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"Why can't everybody just remember that his business goes in cycles." says skipper Mike Angell, laughing, on the bridge of the Bulldog. "Some of these guys got into million-dollar boats for $10,000 down, and they're wondering why they can't keep up with the payments now. I could have done it, but i said, 'No way.' It doesn't realy matter why the crab aren't here, they just aren't. It culd be water temperature. It could be overfishing. It could be that the cod and pollock ate them five years ago when they were small. Who knows." --- From Chapter 1, The Beast of Ugly Seasons: King Crabbing, Dutch Harbor.

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