Living Off the Pacific Ocean Floor
Author : George Moskovita
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fisheries
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Author : George Moskovita
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fisheries
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Author : George Moskovita
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780870718243
In this authentic account of a seafaring life, Captain George Moskovita offers a highly personal and often humorous look at the career of a commercial fisherman. George Moskovita was sixteen when he graduated from high school in Bellingham, Washington, and went to sea. Fishing would take him crabbing off Alaska, seining for sardines off California and for tuna off Mexico, and catching soupfin sharks for their livers (a vital source of Vitamin A during World War II). He came to Astoria, Oregon, in 1939, where he was a pioneer of the Oregon ocean perch fishery. In a career that spanned over 60 years, George Moskovita met with many maritime adventures, recounted for the reader in a clear, direct, and unsentimental style. He saw the fishery he had helped build devastated by foreign factory processing ships. He bought, repaired, traded, and sank more boats than most fishermen would work on in a lifetime. Along the way, he managed to raise four daughters with his wife, June. The name of one of his last boats, the Four Daughters, reflects the central importance of family life to a man who was often at sea. Moskovita's memoir provides a unique glimpse of Pacific maritime life in the 20th century, small-town coastal life after World War II, and the early days of fishery development in Oregon. With an introduction and textual notes by Carmel Finley, an historian of science, and Mary Hunsicker, an aquatic and fisheries scientist, this book will be invaluable to fishery students and professionals interested in the biology, ecology, and history of oceans and commercial fishing. It will also have broad appeal to readers of Oregon history and maritime adventure, and anyone else who has ever stood at the western edge of the continent and wondered what life was like at sea.
Author : Jeffrey A. Karson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 052185718X
A beautifully illustrated reference providing fascinating insights into the hidden world of the seafloor using the latest deep-sea imaging.
Author : Janet Voight
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226817660
Sandy shores -- Rocky shores -- Gulf of California -- Northeast Pacific -- Kelp forest -- Coral reefs -- Indo-West Pacific -- Research cruise experience -- Open ocean -- Subsea vehicles -- Gulf of Mexico -- Midwater depths -- Deep scattering layer -- Hydrothermal vents -- Food falls -- Deep-sea floor.
Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618966366
Provides a top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Marine animals
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Author : Carmel Finley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022644337X
Introduction: political roles for fish populations -- The fishing empires of the Pacific: the Americans, the Japanese, and the Soviets -- Islands and war -- Manifest destiny and fishing -- Tariffs -- Industrialization -- Treaties -- Imperialism -- Enclosure -- Conclusions: updating the best available science
Author : Jim Davis
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1460254147
Jim Davis, through stories of his remarkable career as U.S. Naval officer, international trial lawyer and Federal trial judge, provides rare insight and humor to exotic happenings on the high seas and in America’s courtrooms. All stems from his improbable youthful achievements . . . appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy faculty at age 23 and to the Federal bench in Washington, D.C. at age 32, youngest ever to the U.S. Court of Claims. He tells of chasing Soviet nuclear submarines from New York to the North Sea, learning the Navy’s ways while working with fellow-officer Ross Perot (America’s computer wunderkind in the late 1950s), navigating the St. Lawrence seaway in 1957 on an aircraft carrier, the first and largest ship to do so, and entering Havana, Cuba in 1957 under threat of Castro’s expanding revolution. In the courtroom, he tangled with the CIA over recovery of a Soviet submarine from the Pacific Ocean floor, prevented China from exporting illegally millions of TV sets to the U.S. after stealing U.S. patents, protected Texas Instruments’ multi-billion dollar position in computer chip production from invasion by Japan and Korea, and thwarted piracy by Mexican and Chinese pirates of National Geographic Society’s world famous yellow-bordered Geographic magazine. As trial judge, he decided a $211 million patent case, second largest in U.S. history, and decided what Time Magazine called the “most significant copyright case of the 20th century,” copyright’s struggle with the Xerox machine. And much more. A great read!
Author : Letitia MacColl Elton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"The Story of Sir Francis Drake" by Letitia MacColl Elton Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition. He often goes unappreciated, which is why this book by Elton is so important. It shines a light on one of the most important figures in travel history.
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Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1483822427
The Complete Book of Animals provides 352 pages of engaging, skill-building activities, and fascinating information on a wide variety of animals from every corner of the globe! It also features engaging lessons on insects, reptiles, marine life, farm animals, and common domestic pets. Over 4 million in print! Designed by leading experts, books in the Complete Book series help children in grades preschool-6 build a solid foundation in key subject areas for learning success. Complete Books are the most thorough and comprehensive learning guides available, offering high-interest lessons to encourage learning and full-color illustrations to spark interest. Each book also features challenging concepts and activities to motivate independent study, a fun page of stickers, and a complete answer key to measure performance and guide instruction.