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Catching the ebb : drift-fishing for a life in Cook Inlet / Bert Bender ; drawings by Tony Angell.

Title
Catching the ebb : drift-fishing for a life in Cook Inlet / Bert Bender ; drawings by Tony Angell.
Author
Bender, Bert.
Publication
Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2008.

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Description
ix, 285 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
"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.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Bender, Bert
  • Gillnetting > Alaska > Cook Inlet > Anecdotes
Genre/Form
Anecdotes
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. I. The Life and the Waters -- Chart of South-central Alaska from Cook Inlet to Kayak Island -- Emergence -- The Thing -- Cook Inlet -- The Wake -- Pt. II. The Ebb -- Chart of Cook Inlet from the Forelands to Seldovia -- Catching the Ebb -- First Drifts With Margaret -- The Cannery -- Bowline Bill -- Anna A -- Poopdeck's Hand -- Ngul-a Fatica! -- Desdemona Sands -- Sounion and Scrivener -- Ishmael -- Revenge -- Moontide -- Sea-Brothers -- Sign of Wind -- Judith on the Bluff -- Mouthful of Sand -- Exxon Valdez -- Captain and Crew -- The Cutting Web -- Ninety-Two -- Call Me.
ISBN
  • 9780870712968 (alk. paper)
  • 0870712969 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008020947
OCLC
  • 227574353
  • SCSB-11295623
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library