Catching the ebb
drift-fishing for a life in Cook Inlet
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Author
Publication
2008 - Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon
Language
English
Word Count
71,250 words, Guess
Page Count
285 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecatchingebbdrift0000bend
- ISBN-139780870712968
- ISBN-100870712969
- LibraryThing8495403
- Goodreads3946404
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008020947
- OCLC Control Number227574353
- Better World Books9780870712968
- Open LibraryOL16858003M
Classifications
- DDC639.209164/34
- LCCSH344.6.G5 B46 2008
- LCCSH344.6.G5B46 2008
Description
"Bert Bender started fishing Alaska's Cook Inlet in 1963 with a thirty-foot sail-boat converted to gas power and with no equipment for pulling in a net. Catching the Ebb recounts his thirty summers of gill-netting for salmon and describes his parallel career as a professor of American literature. Drawing on his academic specialties - American sea literature and the influence of evolutionary biology and ecology in American writing - Bender celebrates the fishing life and traces the fishery's path of change, from shifts in the market and the demise of canneries to the effects of the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989 to the rise of the farmed salmon industry." "Catching the Ebb will appeal to readers interested in Alaska, the sea, and the fishing life. In addition to its stories of people, boats, and fish, Bender's compelling memoir addresses the critical question: Can we restrain our heedless pollution of the sea and avoid depleting ocean resources?"--BOOK JACKET.
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