Catalogue

Catalogue
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Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B785256
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Synopsis Catalogue by : Maggs Bros

Flatheads and Spooneys

Flatheads and Spooneys
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780813184777
ISBN-13 : 0813184770
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Synopsis Flatheads and Spooneys by : Jens Lund

Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.

The Atlantic Salmon in the History of North America

The Atlantic Salmon in the History of North America
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Publisher : Fisheries and Oceans, Scientific Information and Publications Branch
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : UVA:35007004717728
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Synopsis The Atlantic Salmon in the History of North America by : R. W. Dunfield

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has occupied a salient position in the history of eastern North America for at least the past 1000 years. Initially the species occupied a prominant niche in the prolific web of life that existed throughout its former occurrence area; millions of pounds of salmon were produced annually from the freshwater streams between New York and Ungava - a resource that was a principal food source for the Amerindian cultures which shared its range. In a chronological and cumulative way, the salmon became an increasingly important factor in both the domestic and commercial life of the developing colonies; it provided a recreational outlet for the sportsman, and evolved as a principal object of intellectual and scientific investigation. The documented specifics of the salmon's history, however, are largely comprised of repetitive instances of overexploitation, careless destruction of stocks and their environment, and ineffectual conservation actions. Despite the species' former importance, its more recent history is one of declining presence, and its destiny appears to be extinction. By documenting this story of discovery, exploitation, and decline, the urgent need for the employment of sound resource management practices to preserve the salmon is emphasized. Appendix A: Historical methods of packing salmon.

Official Boy Scout Handbook

Official Boy Scout Handbook
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Total Pages : 576
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ISBN-10 : 0671249274
ISBN-13 : 9780671249274
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Official Boy Scout Handbook by : William Hillcourt