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Category Archives: Carmel Finley
Wilbert Chapman and World War II
I haven’t written much about Wilbert Chapman on the blog. He’s in both my books, and in various academic papers, but there is not much about him in these pages. I’m going to be writing a series of posts about … Continue reading
Writing Again, at Last
I’m writing again. I don’t know if anybody noticed, but there hasn’t been a lot of blog and that’s because I’ve been hung up on what the next book is going to be about. Now, as you can probably guess, … Continue reading
A Review of All the Boats, by Dr. Donald Gunderson
All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Created overfishing, 1945-1976, University of Chicago Press, 2017. By Donald Gunderson This book is a well-written, scholarly, and engaging history of state subsidies for the fishing industry. This carefully researched book … Continue reading
The Further Scientific Career of the Western Flyer
We are enormously pleased to link to this article by by Colin Levings, Scientist Emeritus, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, about his days on board the Western Flyer when it was chartered by the International Pacific Halibut Commission in 1962-63. The … Continue reading
Our new cover!
We cannot say how pleased we are with the cover to the new book! We are simply thrilled and grateful to Christie Henry, our editor at the University of Chicago Press, and her team for coming up with this fantastic … Continue reading
Posted in boat building, Carmel Finley, Cold War, Environmental History, Fisherie subsidies, Fisheries economics, Fisheries policy, Fishing, History of Science, History of Technology, Japanese fishing, Maritime History, Nick Bez, Ocean fishing, Overfishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Rosefish, Sebastes rockfish, Soviet environmental history, Soviet fishing, Soviet history', World History
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Captain George Moskovita and the R/V John N. Cobb
The Moskovita family has been kind enough to forward a package of pictures, newspapers clippings, and a couple of reports to us. We will be forwarding the material, especially the pictures, to the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria. But … Continue reading
Posted in Carmel Finley, Environmental History, Exploratory Fishing Base, fisheries science, Fishing, George Moskovita, History of Science, History of Technology, Maritime History, Ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, R/V John N. Cobb, Sebastes rockfish
Tagged Columbia River Maritime Museum
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Nick Bez, a portrait by Karsh of Ottawa
The Bez family very kindly let us go through the voluminous collection of materials they amassed about the career of Nick Bez, the millionaire fisherman turned airline executive. There were several copies of a striking photograph of Bez and there … Continue reading
Nick Bez, friend of presidents
The Pacific Explorer, the world’s largest fishing boat, was eventually sold for scrap, but Nick Bez stayed in the news.[i] He sold his stock in Astoria’s Columbia River Packers Association in 1951 and bought P. E. Harris, one of the … Continue reading
WESTERN FLYER – Converted to a Trawler
By Charles (Bob) Hitz, Nov. 11, 2015 Blog Post 36 After World War II the bottom fish market began to grow. Petrale sole made up a large percentage of the landings and the catch of rockfish, specifically Pacific Ocean perch … Continue reading
Posted in boat building, Carmel Finley, Cold War, Environmental History, fisheries science, Fishing, History of Science, History of Technology
Tagged Bering Sea, Bob Hitz, Dan Luketa, Dayton Lee Alverson, Donald Gunderson, Ed Ricketts, F/V Paul L, F/V Sunbeam, fisheries history, Fisheries Science, Fishing, George Yost Harry III, Kevin Bailey, Western Flyer
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WESTERN FLYER – BUILT AS A SEINER
By Charles R. Hitz, Blog # 34 Aug. 28, 2015 Western Flyer is an interesting vessel. I became more aware of her when I was talking to Kevin Bailey, who was writing a book about her. At that time … Continue reading
Posted in Albacore tuna, boat building, California sardines, Carmel Finley, Environmental History, Fishing, History of Science, History of Technology, Ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, R/V John N. Cobb
Tagged Allen Petrich, groundfish, John N. Cobb, Kevin Bailey, sardine fishery, seining, W. C. Nickum and Sons, Western Boat Building Company, Western Flyer
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