Their Fathers' Work - Casting Nets with the World's Fishermen

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Whether from the rail of a small wooden boat off the Java coast or the pitching deck of a Bering Sea crabber, fishing is the world's most hazardous job. The last of the hunting occupations, it is a hard and fiercely independent life. Unprecedented in its sweep, Their Fathers' Work takes us from Bristol Bay, Alaska, to Chile, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Grand Bank and Newfoundland. We meet prosperous fishermen and others who barely subsist; sometimes the two work within sight of each other. Change is constant; traditional fisheries modernized within living memory; village grounds overwhelmed by industrial fishing; stocks threatened by overfishing and pollution; political pressures; and changes in what the world will permit fishermen to catch. Beneath the change, however, fishing remains the same... This is a fascinating, lyrical trip from an author who has been chronicling fishermen for nearly a quarter of a century...