Catching the Ebb: Drift-Fishing for Life in Cook Inlet - Softcover

Bender, Bert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870712969 ISBN 13: 9780870712968

Verlag: Oregon State University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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?

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Bert Bender taught literature at Arizona State University for thirty-three years.

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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. In addition, the memoir addresses a question Bender posed in Sea-Brothers, a history of American sea fiction: Can we restrain our heedless pollution of the sea and avoid depleting ocean resources?

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oregon State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0870712969
• ISBN 13: 9780870712968
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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