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Category Archives: George Moskovita
A review of The Fish Market
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and your Dinner, by Lee van der Voo, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2017. I am utterly amazed by this book. Lee van der Voo has done something I thought … 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
All the Science in an Ear Stone
With All the Boats on the Ocean being published in February, it’s time to think about how to carry on the story of the development of fisheries and fisheries science in the Pacific. I always thought I’d need a trilogy … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental History, fisheries science, Fishing, George Moskovita, History of Science, History of Technology, Maritime History, Ocean fishing, Overfishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Rosefish, Sebastes rockfish, Soviet environmental history, Soviet fishing, Soviet history', World History
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We dust! We clean! We re-organize!
We are telling a lot of stories here at the Pacific Fishery History Project, and since we have trouble keeping them straight, we’re sure it’s a problem for our loyal readers. Postings tend to be more than a little random. … Continue reading
Posted in California sardines, Dayton Lee Alverson, Environmental History, Exploratory Fishing Base, fisheries science, Fishing, George Moskovita, History of Science, History of Technology, Maritime History, Nick Bez, Ocean fishing, Oregon pilchards, Overfishing, Pacific Explorer, Pacific Fishing History Project, R/V John N. Cobb, Rosefish, Sebastes rockfish, Soviet environmental history, Soviet fishing, Soviet 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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Moskovita book for sale at history conference
You have no idea how pleasant it is to see a book you have worked on for sale. Even better would be watching somebody buy the book, but that has only happened to me once, when we went to a … Continue reading
Japanese fishing for tuna in the Indian Ocean, 1956
One of the great things about doing research are the little aha! moments that come when you find something interesting–in this case, a clipping from a 1956 article in Pacific Fisherman, about the Japanese fishery for tuna in the Indian … Continue reading
Astoria, 1947
There are many ways of looking at history. We can look at events, or at the people who were involved in the events, and we can look at how things came together in significant ways. There is often another dimension … Continue reading
Posted in Albacore tuna, boat building, Columbia River Packers Association, Dayton Lee Alverson, Environmental History, Exploratory Fishing Base, fisheries science, Fishing, George Moskovita, History of Science, History of Technology, Nick Bez, Ocean fishing, Pacific Explorer, Pacific Fishing History Project, Sebastes rockfish, World History
Tagged Astoria, Columbia River Packers Association, Dayton Lee Alverson, Fisheries Science, George Moskovita, George Yost Harry, George Yost Harry III, Jergen Westrheim, Nick Bez, Oregon State University, Pacific Explorer, Pacific Fishery History Project, Pacific Ocean Perch, trawling
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Towards a curriculum in Pacific fisheries history
As regular readers know, we often rail about the lack of history materials about the development of fishing and fisheries science in the Pacific. Most of the history on the development of fisheries has been focused on the Atlantic, where … Continue reading
Posted in California sardines, Carmel Finley, Dayton Lee Alverson, Environmental History, fisheries science, Fishing, George Moskovita, History of Science, History of Technology, Ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Resources About Fishing, World History
Tagged Dayton Lee Alverson, Donald Gunderson, Fisheries Science, George Moskovita, John Steinbeck, Kevin Bailey, Sea of Cortez, Western Flyer
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The Moskovita Memoir–this fall from OSU Press!
Faithful readers will know how excited we are that Oregon State University Press will be republishing Living Off the Pacific Ocean Floor, George Moskovita’s memoir about his five decades fishing on the West Coast. It is set for publication this … Continue reading
Posted in boat building, California sardines, Carmel Finley, Environmental History, Fishing, George Moskovita, History of Science, History of Technology, Maritime History, Ocean fishing, Oregon pilchards, Overfishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Rachel Carson Center, Rosefish, Sebastes rockfish, Soviet environmental history, Soviet fishing, World History
Tagged groundfish, Pacific Fishery History Project, trawling
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