About this title: In a memoir that recounts thirty summers of fishing Alaskaas 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 ...
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Description: Very Good. 0870712969 Very Good Condition-Exactly as Described--EXACT ISBN MATCH-**Softcover**--Has some mild shelf wear. With gift inscription inside cover. Corner of cover curls a bit. No other marks or writing in text. Absolutely no spine creasing. Ships Quickly-IN STOCK-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Description: As New; Oregon State University Press; 2008; Softcover. 9780870712968. The fishhing life in Alaska. Written by fisherman / English professor.; 8vo; 285 pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oregon State Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-10-15
ISBN-13:9780870712968ISBN:0870712969
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780870712968ISBN:0870712969
Description: In a memoir that recounts thirty summers of fishing Alaskaas 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 e... read more
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