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Meet Mike & Yvette Hudson: Fishers, Fishmongers, Community Organizers

[Mike is the figure with the dark glasses.]
Versatile is the word for Mike Hudson! Once a recreational fisherman, he soon found commercial fishing more to his liking. Meanwhile the state of the San Francisco Bay Area salmon fishery clearly was in crisis, and his political skills were needed, organizing fishermen and brokering an [...]

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2009 10 15 Administrator Pacific fishing families Comments (0)

Classic Summary of America’s Fishing Challenges

The World of the Small Commercial Fishermen: Their Lives and Their Boats by Michael Meltzer is generously illustrated book that captures the fishing industry scene as it was in 1980 from Maine to Alaska. Recently I found a copy at a local used bookstore and enjoyed reading it very much. While it’s not in color, [...]

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2009 10 04 Administrator Contemporary working boat
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