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Fishing the coast : a life on the water / Don Pepper.

Title
Fishing the coast : a life on the water / Don Pepper.
Author
Pepper, Don, 1935-
Publication
Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub., c2013.

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Additional Authors
Robertson, Pam
Description
223 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Pepper, Don, 1935-
  • Fishers > Pacific Coast > Biography
  • Economists > Canada > Biography
  • Fisheries > Pacific Coast > History
  • Fishery technology > Pacific Coast > History
  • Pacific Coast (B.C.) > Biography
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: The art of fishing -- Early days -- We build a salmon seine -- Fishing nimpkish sockeye -- Fishing Double Bay and Blinkhorn -- Fo'c'sle life -- Finding fish -- The puretic power block on the Walter M, 1956 -- Fishing nimpkish dog salmon -- Pit-lamping on the Vanisle, 1963 -- Hard times: a tough season drum seining on the BC Main and a bad year gillnetting -- Fishing the Blue Line -- The US-Canada fish war -- Fishing roe herring in the Foote Islands -- Sardines come to BC -- The last voyage of the Prosperity.
ISBN
  • 9781550175974
  • 1550175971
OCLC
825161111
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library