Out on the Deep Blue: Women, Men and the Oceans they Fish

This is the first collection of dramatic, first-person accounts of commercial fishing written by the men and women who work in the nation's most dangerous occupation. Nineteen diverse fisher-writers, from the famous to the unknown, take the reader swordfish harpooning on the Georges Banks, wint...

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Main Author: Fields, Leslie (Leyland)
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: DigitalCommons@Cedarville 2001
Subjects:
Fisheries
Creative Writing
Bering Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/alum_books/49
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Creative Writing
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Creative Writing
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