Living Off the Pacific Ocean Floor

Living Off the Pacific Ocean Floor

Author: George Moskovita

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870718243

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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.


Fishes of the Pacific Coast

Fishes of the Pacific Coast

Author: Gar Goodson

Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9780804713856

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“These attractive, pocket-sized guides for fish watchers have been carefully written by Goodson and profusely illustrated in striking water colors by Phillip Weisgerber. Although designed for divers, fishers, aquarists and other nonprofessionals, these little books will undoubtedly find their way on to the shelves of many ichthyologists who will value them as quick references and for providing life-like, color renditions of many fish species found in American coastal waters.”—Copeia “Goodson’s guidebook is designed for the fishwatcher—whether skin or scuba diver, fisherman, aquarist, schoolchild or casual tourist exploring the shore—who seeks to know more about our marine life.”—Palos Verdes Peninsula News


The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast

The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast

Author: Kirk Lombard

Publisher: Heyday Books

Published: 2014-10

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781597143578

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An indispensible guide to coastal foraging and fishing in the intertidal regions of our Northern California coast where fish, small and large, plus abalone and many other tasty items can be found


Washington's Pacific Coast

Washington's Pacific Coast

Author: Greg Johnston

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781594859397

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The first comprehensive guidebook to the entire Washington coast--from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Columbia River