Research Catalog

Title

Bluebacks and silver brights : a lifetime in the BC fisheries from bounty to plunder / Norman Safarik with Allan Safarik.

Author

Safarik, Norman.

Publication

Toronto : ECW Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Safarik, Allan, 1948-

Description

x, 381 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

"A captivating memoir set during the pinnacle of West Coast fishing." --Back cover.

Subjects

• Biographies
• History
• Pêches > Aspect de l'environnement > Colombie-Britannique
• Pêcheurs > Colombie-Britannique > Biographies
• Pêches > Colombie-Britannique > Histoire
• Fisheries > Environmental aspects > British Columbia
• Fishers > British Columbia > Biography
• Fisheries > British Columbia > History

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Additional Formats (note)

• Also published in an electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: After the Catch -- Terminal City -- Trawlers -- Man from New York -- California Con Man -- Live Cod -- Spanish Pete -- Lutafish Eaters -- Backman Boys -- Littlenecks -- Peddlers -- Fishmongers -- Bluebacks -- Carriage Trade -- Industry Flounders -- Fishermen's Ball -- Von Arnim -- Gambler -- Stradiotti Brothers -- Monsters and Money -- Fish Cops -- King of Fishmongers -- Trade -- Hagers -- Chickens and Whales -- Mac and Bob -- Cannery Row -- Shoot Up at Campbell Avenue -- Big Fish and Big Business -- Malcolm McCallum -- Dr. Ballard -- Off with Their Heads -- Reds Bearing Lobsters -- Blue Suit and a Red Rose -- Of Sea Lice and Lieutenant-Governors -- Charlie Walcott and the Annie Tuck -- Shah's Agent -- How the West Coast Was Won and Lost -- Thieves and Cash Buyers -- Vanishing Fishery -- APPENDICES -- Pinks, Crustaceans and Morning Herring -- Ocean Kings -- Brief History of Salmon.

ISBN

• 9781770410411
• 1770410414

OCLC

• 758061722
• SCSB-12632753

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library