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Title: Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman by Richard Adams Carey, Harry Foster ISBN: 0-395-76530-7 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Is Book Burning Illegal?
Comment: This is going to be short. After having read "Living On The Edge" I thought I was getting another tale of life as a fisherman.Instead, what I got was life as a fisherman at town council meetings. The book is currently being used under the short leg of my pool table. ...
Rating: 3
Summary: Better subtitle "Death of the New England Fisherman"?
Comment: Being a New England fisherman (hehe-rather, woman) I found the day-to-day lives of the fisherman very interesting-who knew scallops had blue eyes? However, I had a difficult time following the time frame of events because of the way Mr. Carey jumped around. I couldn't even tell exactly what year this book was taking place without some re-reading. The politics involved are sickening in the amount of time wasted and the fact that the committees could get nothing accomplished, evidenced with the ongoing cod crisis in New England today. Too bad none of the politicians involved happened to read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent inside look at the Commercial Fishing Industry.
Comment: If you read The Perfect Storm and came away wanting to know more about the commercial fishing industry, this is the book. Carey explains the views of the men and women who risk life, limb, and fortune in the waters off Cape Cod. He also explains the tedium of public hearings and governmental rule making which impact the lives of the fishermen.
I spent the summer in a rented house overlooking the commercial fishing fleet in Bodega Bay, California. I often wondered what happened on those boats once they left the harbor, and what regulations governed them. Against the Tide explains it all.
By way of criticism, I found the characters a bit hard to follow and the discussions of the regulations a bit tedious, but overall I learned a lot.
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Title: Their Fathers' Work: Casting Nets with the World's Fishermen by William B. McCloskey ISBN: 007135820X Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession : King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker ISBN: 0312089244 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw ISBN: 0786885416 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 07 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Fish, Markets, and Fishermen: The Economics of Overfishing by Suzanne Iudicello, Michael Weber, Robert Wieland, Center for Marine Conservation ISBN: 1559636432 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Silent Scourge: Children, Pollution, and Why Scientists Disagree by Colleen F. Moore ISBN: 019515391X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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