When real estate agent Diana Sullivan, raised in affluent in Chevy Chase, steps from her car onto the gravel parking lot of Mattingly's General Store in June 1957, she enters an unfamiliar world--the isolated and rural 7th District of St. Mary's County in Southern Maryland. As she walks toward the store seeking directions, she is jostled by a young man. While Harry helps Diana retrieve the scattered contents of her purse, he gives her a preview of the local vernacular and mannerisms. Although Diana leaves the young waterman in anger after this volatile first meeting, she will welcome Harry's assistance later in the day. In time, Diana grows to love Harry, his family, and the region's culture. She enjoys the warmth and acceptance of the locals, a tightly knit community of watermen and tobacco farmers, many of whose families' roots extent back to Southern Maryland's colonial days. However, she knows that her upper-class family would disapprove of her involvement with these rural people. Soon, critical external pressures buffet the cocoon that Diana and Harry have spun around their relationship, causing the two lovers to question whether their love can survive.

This reference work presents six years (1981—86) of import data on fishery and marine-related commodities. For each commodity, annual statistics are listed for the quantity imported; the free-alongside-ship (f.a.s.) value; the cost insurance and freight (c.i.f.) value; and the import charges. Dates are aggre­gated by the country of origin, region of unloading, and method of transporta­tion. Overall annual summaries are also included. Import statistics were obtained from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bu­reau of the Census, which collects data based on commodity descriptions in Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated (TSUSA), an official publica­tion of the U.S. International Trade Commission. When the TSUSA de­scription provides sufficient informa­tion to identify the specific fish or shellfish, data are grouped by type of fish or shellfish along with the related commodity data. Thirty-one types of fish and eleven shellfish are included. A separate section is included for fishery and marine-related commodities not specific to a particular species. The book includes three indexes: (1) an al­phabetical listing of fish used in the import statistics together with related products; (2) an alphabetical listing of commodities by country of origin; and (3) a listing of the TSUSA commodity descriptions together with the fish or end-use category under which data for that commodity are categorized.

Discusses fishing and the fishing industry around the world, from tuna hunting to the lake fishers of Africa.

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