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Fish and Ships by Ralph W Andrews & AK Larssen
Fish and Ships by Ralph W Andrews & AK Larssen
Hard Cover
173 pages
Copyright 1959 MCMLIX
CONTENTS
AND THE SEA WAS FULL OF FISH page 11
Heads Or Tails-The Money Still Paid For Fish 20
TO FISH FOR A LIVING 21
Salmon By Hook And Herring 30
GEM OF THE OCEAN 35
The Columbia Takes Her Toll 40
AND THE CANS WERE MADE BY HAND 49
The Iron Chink 58
Friday Harbor Cannery Was Swift Success 63
"Alice Dickerman" Goes To London 67
SAILS AND "SMOKE BOATS" 71
The "Mary" Was In Good Hands 73
Two Bits Apiece 74
Storm On The Banks 77
Halibut Gear 88
Days Of "Smoke Boats" Recalled 92
Some Did Not Come Back 95
Old Iron Halibut Steamer 97
NETS IN THE SALT CHUCK 101
It's That Way In Bristol Bay 106
Fisherman's Dock 112
"Don't Whistle" Says The Old Doryman 116
Everything That Swims 118
What Won't Fish Eat? 122
NETS IN THE RIVERS 125
A Sea Of Sails And Oars 130
Sockeye Run 133
ON THE CODFISH BANKS 135
The "Sophie" Ran To Cod 143
Battle Of The Banks 147
ROMANCE OF THE PRIBILOFS 149
WHALE, HO! 161
INDEX 171
THE PRICE OF FISH
The deep sea fishing boat "Republic" will never sail out for the tuna again, nor for the salmon-out of Astoria into the green swells from westward. Part of her bow has drifted ashore near Long Beach, and some of the forward deck-and where the hulk of her is, only the sea can tell. Her last port of call was the storm. And the fishermen who sailed her, and looked to her fishing gear, and harvested the sea? Where are they? Perhaps the gulls know, or the cormorants. Only this seems certain-that they and their boat will fish no more.
You walk through the market and glance at the fish stalls heaped with limp silver. Only a day or so ago these fish, most of them, were out where "the low sky mates with the sea." Now they bear price tags. Even fish, so we say, is high priced. That is true. Fish are high priced-and the least of the price is reckoned in coin.
Men who would rather fish at sea than work ashore sail out on the fishing boats to seek and follow the fish. It is a glad, hard life, and they love it well-but they stake their lives on the catch. It isn't often that the boats don't come back to port, for their oil-skinned skippers and crews to shout to their friends on the dock with word of their luck-but sometimes they don't. The "Republic" was one that didn't. And how are you going to figure that into the price of a pound of fish?
-From the Portland Oregonian
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