Category Archives: What We’re Reading
Facts and Fish
I teach world history and over Christmas break I found myself working on a lecture about history–what is history, how do we do it, and how has the writing of history changed over time. I found myself going back to … Continue reading
"An Enormous, Immensely Complicated Intervention"
There is no question that fisheries management is “An enormously, immensely complicated intervention,” as Spencer Apollonio and Jacob Dykstra write in their new book about the New England Fishery Management Council. Both authors have long experience with the council: Dykstra … Continue reading
Dutch Herring, An Environmental History
Dutch Herring, An Environmental History, Bo Poulsen, (Amsterdam: Aksant Publishing, 2008). This is a totally cool book, one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read about fishing. I always assumed that the Dutch herring fishery, the largest and most … Continue reading
Shaping the Shoreline, by Connie Y. Chiang
Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast, Connie Y. Chiang, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008). There is always tension between the fishing and tourism industries. The tourists like to have a bit of the industry atmosphere … Continue reading
The Marine Fisheries Review / Soviet Whaling
Dr Phil Clapham of the National Marine Mammal Lab became involved in this effort during a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr Bob Brownell in 1995. Beginning in 2006, Yulia Ivashchenko (now Phil’s wife) joined the project to translate formerly secret Soviet … Continue reading
Sidney Holt / Three Lumps of Coal
Historians love counter-factuals. What would the world have been like if Lincoln didn’t go to the Ford Theater. So here’s a counter-factual for those who are interested in fisheries history, what if Sidney Holt had followed through with his 1945 … Continue reading