Brad Matsen

Fishing Up North (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

True and intimate short stories of a modern fisherman's life of luck and loss.

Written in chronological order, fisherman Brad Matsen gives a realistic look of frightening weather, good fishing, terrible fishing, great days, and sweet living in Alaskan waters 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.

Included in this second edition are 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780882409849
• Artikelnr.: 40376162

Autorenporträt

Brad Matsen has written about the sea and its inhabitants for forty years in books, film scripts, essays and magazine articles. He is the author of the New York Times best sellers Titanic's Last Secrets: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss and Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King among other books, and was a creative producer for the television series The Shape of Life. His articles have appeared in Mother Jones, Audubon, and Nature, among other publications. He divides his time between Seattle and New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

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.