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Author : George Moskovita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : OCLC:47137010
Author : George Moskovita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087071824X
In this authentic account of a seafaring life, Captain George Moskovita offers a highly personal and often humorous look at the career of a commercial fisherman. George Moskovita was sixteen when he graduated from high school in Bellingham, Washington, and went to sea. Fishing would take him crabbing off Alaska, seining for sardines off California and for tuna off Mexico, and catching soupfin sharks for their livers (a vital source of Vitamin A during World War II). He came to Astoria, Oregon, in 1939, where he was a pioneer of the Oregon ocean perch fishery. In a career that spanned over 60 years, George Moskovita met with many maritime adventures, recounted for the reader in a clear, direct, and unsentimental style. He saw the fishery he had helped build devastated by foreign factory processing ships. He bought, repaired, traded, and sank more boats than most fishermen would work on in a lifetime. Along the way, he managed to raise four daughters with his wife, June. The name of one of his last boats, the Four Daughters, reflects the central importance of family life to a man who was often at sea. Moskovita's memoir provides a unique glimpse of Pacific maritime life in the 20th century, small-town coastal life after World War II, and the early days of fishery development in Oregon. With an introduction and textual notes by Carmel Finley, an historian of science, and Mary Hunsicker, an aquatic and fisheries scientist, this book will be invaluable to fishery students and professionals interested in the biology, ecology, and history of oceans and commercial fishing. It will also have broad appeal to readers of Oregon history and maritime adventure, and anyone else who has ever stood at the western edge of the continent and wondered what life was like at sea.
Author : Carmel Finley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226443379
Introduction: political roles for fish populations -- The fishing empires of the Pacific: the Americans, the Japanese, and the Soviets -- Islands and war -- Manifest destiny and fishing -- Tariffs -- Industrialization -- Treaties -- Imperialism -- Enclosure -- Conclusions: updating the best available science
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Marine animals
ISBN : UCSD:31822016489072
Author : Kevin M. Bailey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226116761
By many accounts, the Western Flyer is the world's most famous fishing vessel. It acquired its literary and scientific reputation in 1940 when John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts chartered the vessel for a six-week expedition to Mexico s Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. Ricketts a pioneer in the study of diverse sea life of the West Coast Steinbeck and the crew spent those weeks collecting specimens along the margins of the sea. The Western Flyer hadn't been their first choice, but the local fisherman that dominated the sardine fisheries in Monterey at the time considered Steinbeck an activist in the labor movement who wanted to unionize their boat crews. The boat itself has been resurrected of recent, caught in a battle between its current owner, a developer who wants to turn it into a restaurant in Salinas, and the Western Flyer Project, a nonprofit group that wants the Flyer restored to its original working condition and used for educational voyages on Monterey Bay and elsewhere. After the Flyer s brief brush with celebrity, it worked for decades as a sardine seiner, a tuna boat, a crab boat in Alaska and a scientific research vessel along the West Coast. The author, who grew up in Salinas, uses the boat as a device to trace the depletion of marine life, from shrimp in the Sea of Cortez to sardines, to salmon and king crab. The boat is just one character, but so too are those who have owned it, fished from it, and also who now battle over rights to establish its final resting place. The author has used Steinbeck archives, interviewed family members, and drawn upon his 32 years in Pacific Northwest Fisheries, casting a wide net around this vessel and the ecology of waters in which it has traveled."
Author : Jim Davis
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460254134
Jim Davis, through stories of his remarkable career as U.S. Naval officer, international trial lawyer and Federal trial judge, provides rare insight and humor to exotic happenings on the high seas and in America's courtrooms. All stems from his improbable youthful achievements . . . appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy faculty at age 23 and to the Federal bench in Washington, D.C. at age 32, youngest ever to the U.S. Court of Claims. He tells of chasing Soviet nuclear submarines from New York to the North Sea, learning the Navy's ways while working with fellow-officer Ross Perot (America's computer wunderkind in the late 1950s), navigating the St. Lawrence seaway in 1957 on an aircraft carrier, the first and largest ship to do so, and entering Havana, Cuba in 1957 under threat of Castro's expanding revolution. In the courtroom, he tangled with the CIA over recovery of a Soviet submarine from the Pacific Ocean floor, prevented China from exporting illegally millions of TV sets to the U.S. after stealing U.S. patents, protected Texas Instruments' multi-billion dollar position in computer chip production from invasion by Japan and Korea, and thwarted piracy by Mexican and Chinese pirates of National Geographic Society's world famous yellow-bordered Geographic magazine. As trial judge, he decided a $211 million patent case, second largest in U.S. history, and decided what Time Magazine called the "most significant copyright case of the 20th century," copyright's struggle with the Xerox machine. And much more. A great read!
Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781484653678
This book introduces children to the Pacific Ocean, looking at climate, ports, and features of its geography. Different types of islands and the ocean floor are explored using key geography terms. Children are encouraged to use geographical skills to locate information by reading maps and interpreting simple keys. This series complements the Introducing Continents series.
Author : Charles Pierce LeWarne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295997568
Winner of the Malstrom Award of the League of Snohomish County Historical Organizations In 1968, a time of turbulence and countercultural movements, a one-time television salesman named Paul Erdmann changed his name to Love Israel and started a controversial religious commune in Seattle's middle-class Queen Anne Hill neighborhood. He quickly gathered a following and they too adopted the Israel surname, along with biblical or virtuous first names such as Honesty, Courage, and Strength. The burgeoning Love Israel Family lived a communal lifestyle centered on meditation and the philosophy that all persons were one and life was eternal. They flourished for more than a decade, owning houses and operating businesses on the Hill, although rumors of drug use, control of members, and unconventional sexual arrangements dogged them. By 1984, perceptions among many followers that some Family members - especially Love Israel himself - had become more equal than others led to a bitter breakup in which two-thirds of the members defected. The remaining faithful, about a hundred strong, resettled on a ranch the Family retained near the town of Arlington, Washington, north of Seattle. There they recouped and adapted, with apparent social and economic success, for two more decades. In The Love Israel Family, Charles LeWarne tells the compelling story of this group of idealistic seekers whose quest for a communal life grounded in love, service, and obedience to a charismatic leader foundered when that leader's power distanced him from his followers. LeWarne followed the Family for years, attending its celebrations and interviewing the faithful and the disaffected alike. He tells the Family's story with both sympathy and balance, describing daily life in the urban and later the rural communes and explaining the Family's deeply felt spiritual beliefs. The Love Israel Family is an important chapter in the history of communal experiments in the United States.
Author : John F. Prevost
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616139216
Surveys the origin, geological borders, climate, water, plant and animal life, and economic and ecological aspects of the Pacific Ocean.
Author : V.I. Ilyichev,V.V. Anikiev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401127738
This volume presents a collection of original, multidisciplinary papers written by leading scientists from the various countries of the Pacific rim. The major topics covered are the origins of life in the marine environment; the changing distribution of biological parameters; hydrophysical and hydrochemical processes; and the exploitation of ocean resources and the ensuing consequences. The material is divided into five parts. The Introduction (Part I) gives a comprehensive overview of the research activities of the IOC and related organisations. The following four parts of the book comprise a number of survey papers which deal with specific aspects of marine science in the Pacific Ocean. For researchers and decision makers interested in marine and environmental science with an emphasis on the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036451037
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030218846
Author : Bee G. Gwynn M.D
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781469163765
This book is a synopsis of paleontology. It has not been written for scientists. Their contributions are herein utilized. It has been written primarily for the young, perhaps middle school to high school as well as for adults who are young at heart. Adults who have chosen other pathways for accruing a livelihood and who might just now begin to wonder how earth, life, all this, began and evolved. The work has been simplified in order to render it more likely to be read and understood by the non-scientist.
Author : David M. Hassenzahl,Mary Catherine Hager,Linda R. Berg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119443346
The 5th Edition of Visualizing Environmental Science provides students with a valuable opportunity to identify and connect the central issues of environmental science through a visual approach. Beautifully illustrated, this fifth edition shows students what the discipline is all about—its main concepts and applications—while also instilling an appreciation and excitement about the richness of the subject. This edition is thoroughly refined and expanded; the visuals utilize insights from research on student learning and feedback from users.
Author : Antony Joseph
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128093634
Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid offers a bottom-to-top tour of the world’s oceans, exposing the secrets hidden therein from a variety of scientific perspectives. Opening with a discussion of the earth’s formation, hot spots, ridges, plate tectonics, submarine trenches, and cold seeps, the text goes on to address such topics as the role of oceans in the origin of life, tidal bore, thermal effects, ecosystem services, marine creatures, and nutraceutical and pharmaceutical resources. This unique reference provides insight into a wide array of questions that researchers continue to ask about the vast study of oceans and the seafloor. It is a one-of-a-kind examination of oceans that offers important perspectives for researchers, practitioners, and academics in all marine-related fields. Includes chapters addressing various scientific disciplines, offering the opportunity for readers to gain insights on diverse topics in the study of oceans Provides scientific discussion on thermo-tolerant microbial life in sub-seafloor hot sediments and vent fields, as well as the origin of life debates and the puzzles revolving around how life originated Includes detailed information on the origin of dreaded episodes, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, internal waves and tidal bores Contains information on the contribution of the oceans in terms of providing useful nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products