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<p><P>From the super-heated decade 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 carry the flavor of the modern fisherman's life and fortunes in the waters off Alaska. In Fishing Up North, 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.<P>Commercial fishing's home ports &#151; Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Naknek, Cordova, Petersburg, Sitka, and Seattle &#151; are classic fishing towns, where docks bars, and even quiet living merge in colorful portraits about life on the last frontier.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>Matsen (<i>Faces of Fishing</i>, Monterey Bay Aquarium Fdn., 1997) draws together some of the articles he published in magazines such as Alaska <i>Fisherman's Journal</i>, <i>National Fisherman</i>, <i>Audubon</i>, and <i>Oceans</i> 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 ne

Author

Matsen, Bradford

Publisher

Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780882405025

Subjects

Economics, Agriculture, Business