Book Review

The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand's Tales of the BC Coast

Clarkson, Molly

2014

Overview

PROMOTING AN upcoming reading of Don Pepper's A Life on the Water at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Harbour Publishing exclaims: \"Here, finally, is a book about commercial salmon fishing through the eyes of a commercial fisherman!\" It is fortunate, then, that for the past twenty-five years, readers have also had access to several excellent books about commercial salmon fishing from the eyes - and pens - of female fishers and women of the coast, notably Edith Inglauer's bestselling account, Fishing with John, of her trolling days with husband John Daly aboard the MoreKelp, and Pat Wastell Norris's High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered. Planning on making enough money to return to school in the fall for a degree in nursing and counselling, Taylor instead finds herself struggling to pull in enough salmon to buy fuel, ice, and groceries: \"the gods and the government had conspired to set a deadly stage: no fish, terrible weather, closure, strikes, cutbacks, rocketing interest rates and falling fish prices.

• Publisher: The University of British Columbia - BC Studies,Pacific Affairs. The University of British Columbia
• Subject: 20th century / Animal Husbandry / Autobiography / Boats / British Columbia / Canada / Closure / Deities / Disability adjusted life years / Fish / Fishermen / Fishing / Grocery industry / Interest rates / Literary Genres / Money / Nursing / Prices / Publishing / Return to school / Salmon / Salmonidae / Social history / Weather / Women / Women's employment
• ISBN: 9781927051658, 1927051657