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Rocky waters
\"All day at school, Rocky stares out the window, imagining fishing boats sailing across the sky. He wants nothing more than to fish for lobster with his dad, and finally one season he's old enough to go along. Before dawn, Rocky, Dad and sister Patsy untie their boat and head out to sea. Surrounded by the vast expanse of sky and water, Rocky feels as free as a seagull. His dad steers toward their first buoy, then pulls up a line of traps full of lobster. Rocky learns how to band their claws, then Patsy rebaits the traps and shoves them back into the sea. It takes a full day to haul up, empty, rebait and re-set three hundred traps, but Rocky loves every minute of it. \"If the salt's still in your veins when you're Patsy's age, you can leave school and fish all you want,\" his dad tells him. Anne Laurel Carter's story is inspired by the childhood memories of Rocky Gaudet, who grew up wanting to fish the sea like his Acadian ancestors. He continues to fish for lobster in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia today. Marianne Dumas' naiÌ8ve watercolor illustrations recall Rocky's first fishing experience.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transformation of coastal village on Pahawang Island, Lampung, Indonesia: From a fishing village to a marine tourism village
Coastal areas, once predominantly reliant on fisheries and agriculture, have undergone significant transformation into zones of marine tourism. While creating job opportunities and generating income, this shift has also triggered adverse social, cultural, and environmental impacts. Focusing on Pahawang Island, Indonesia, this research examines the socio-economic and ecological consequences of transitioning from a fishing village to a marine tourism village. It employs qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and document analysis. This study provides an in-depth understanding of this transformation. The study shows that the transformation from a fishing village to a marine tourism village on Pahawang Island has undergone the first four stages, as described in the critical paper by Butler (1980). Currently, Pahawang Island is in a post-stagnation stage. The research findings reveal that marine tourism has improved local livelihoods through tourism activities, expanded employment opportunities, and increased access to goods and services.However, the transition has disrupted social cohesion, diminished adherence to traditional customs, and contributed to coastal pollution. Furthermore, conflicts over land ownership and access between tourism investors and the local community have escalated, resulting in social tensions and occasional violence. These findings underscore the need for sustainable tourism development strategies that balance economic benefits with social and environmental preservation.
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Mounties, Moose, and Moonshine
Okihiro looks at crime arising from economic subsistence behaviours ? hunting, gathering, and domestic production activities long supported or tolerated in the outports, including big-game poaching and the production and consumption of moonshine.
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Our homesick songs : a novel
The Connors have lived in the idyllic fishing village of Big Running, Newfoundland, for generations. But the fish have suddenly disappeared, causing Martha and Aidan Connor, parents to Finn and Cora, to travel north for work, spending months away as other residents abandon the village altogether. With their marriage under duress, Martha and Aidan review how their gorgeous love affair led to this precipice, while Cora and Finn pursue their own precocious ideas for saving their family--and the only home they've ever known.
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Flatheads and Spooneys
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. InFlatheads 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.
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In the Path of the Storms
The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two
of Alabama’s most distinctive, with roots going back to the
French settlements of the 18th century. For generations, the
proud inhabitants of these communities have extracted their
modest livings from the sea, sustained by a lesson handed down
over time— that providing for the needs of one’s
family is the only true measure of success. But the world has
changed drastically for them. A global economy of higher gas
prices and cheap imported seafood has threatened the lifeblood of
the area. And in recent years a rash of hurricanes, culminating
with Hurricane Katrina, has battered the hopes and dreams of
these Bayou towns. But they have known hard times and massive
changes before. In the 1970s, refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia,
and Laos flooded into the area and within a few years made up a
third of the local population. Three Buddhist temples soon took
their places among the Catholic, Baptist, and Pentecostal
churches that predominated, and for a time the different ethnic
groups coexisted in a kind of uneasy peace. But now they are
learning to pull together in an uncertain struggle to rebuild
their communities.
In the Path of the Storms is a powerful portrait in
words and photographs of a unique and unforgettable place. It is
a story of tradition, and forces of change, and the epic struggle
of these Gulf Coast communities to survive and thrive.
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Lucky Lukey's Northsea: Vernacular Song in the Pre-War Cullercoats Fishing Community
Cullercoats is a village halfway between the resorts of Whitley Bay and Tynemouth on the north-east coast of England. Its main industry once was fishing, with men going out in their cobles from its harbour, while their wives hawked the produce inland at North Shields. Until the invention of the phonograph and onset of the wireless in the 1920s, music was learned elsewhere and reproduced in the home, at work, chapel, or church. This article draws on hitherto unexplored manuscript and print sources to chart the repertoire of vernacular song and the singing practices among this community in the period, in particular up to the end of the First World War, before the age of the wireless and phonograph.
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