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Pacific Northwest S Whaling Coast
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Author : Dale Vinnedge
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2014
Pacific Northwest S Whaling Coast written by Dale Vinnedge and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
Pacific Northwest waters from Alaska to Oregon lie between the Arctic whaling grounds and the home whaling ports of San Francisco and Honolulu. While the Pacific Northwest was not a whaling destination, whales in these rich grounds were pursued for many years as whale ships moved between the whalers' summer whaling grounds and southern home ports. After 1900, whaling in the north Pacific changed from sailing ships to modern, steam-powered iron ships and harpoon cannons. Land stations were built along southern Alaska, Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and Washington State. The new "killer" ships brought whales to these land stations for flensing and for rendering into oil, fertilizer, and other products. Most of these products were shipped to Seattle and San Francisco on steamers and factory ships at the end of the season. At the start of the season, supplies and workers were shipped up from Seattle to resupply and repopulate the stations.
On The Northwest
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Author : Robert Lloyd Webb
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
On The Northwest written by Robert Lloyd Webb and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
Whelks To Whales
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Author : Rick M. Harbo
language : en
Publisher: Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub.
Release Date : 1999
Whelks To Whales written by Rick M. Harbo and has been published by Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Coastal animals categories.
Winner of a 2000 BC Book Award and a BC Bestseller
Gone Whaling
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Author : Douglas Hand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Gone Whaling written by Douglas Hand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Nature categories.
In the darkened halls of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Douglas Hand encountered a killer whale with the head of a man emerging from the blowhole. This puzzling and haunting specter was carved on a worn cedar totem pole of the Haida, Native Americans of the Northwest coast. What indigenous wisdom inspired orca and human to be wrought together in wood? Indeed, where does one species begin and the other end? Gone Whaling is the exquisitely rendered account of a journey to the waters of the Pacific Northwest to find answers to those questions as well as to track down the essence of orca, that wildest of animals. The quest takes the author first to the Vancouver Aquarium, where he encounters orcas in tanks and scientists who blur the lines between research and showmanship. Moving out to the San Juan Islands, he locates Ken Balcolm, marine biologist and orca census-taker, who deciphers the familial dynamics of the whales by tracking their far migrations. From there, he is led to the controversial researcher Paul Spong - known as the "patron saint of the whales" - who is mapping the clicks and squeaks the orcas make as they travel by his home on remote Hansen Island. But science can go only so far in providing a real understanding of the mystery of these creatures of the sea, so Douglas Hand turns to the last remaining Haida totem carvers to explain what orca means. In the end, he is inspired to take on the dangerous waters himself in a one-man kayak to encounter his own orca. Gone Whaling is rich with natural history and human stories. The mysterious and deeply complex behavior of orcas is described with crystalline detail and style. The inquiry itself is infusedwith the author's boundless curiosity and tempered with his wry humor. This luminous and confident book appeals to the part of us all that has pondered the deep rift between humans and other creatures, between the modern and the primitive. There is an old Haida belief that a good life is rewarded by death and rebirth as an orca. Therefore, you should treat the orca well that swims close to shore, for it may be your ancestor. This special book probes the boundary that separates and binds humans to killer whales, and humans to the natural order.
Whelks To Whales
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Author : Rick M. Harbo
language : en
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-28
Whelks To Whales written by Rick M. Harbo and has been published by Harbour Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Nature categories.
Newly revised and updated in 2010 with additional photographs and up-to-date names, this full-colour field guide to the marine life of coastal British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California is perfect for divers, boaters and beachcombers. It is a ready reference to more than 400 of the most common species, the fascinating local sponges, jellyfish, crabs, shrimp, barnacles, clams, snails, seals, fish, whales, sea algae and hundreds of other living things that can be observed and identified without being disturbed. The book is arranged for quick identification with colour-coded sections, full-colour photographs and comprehensive but concise information on size, range, habitat and facts of interest about each species. A glossary, checklist, reading list and full index are included.
Whales Of The West Coast
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Author : David A. E. Spalding
language : en
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
Release Date : 1998
Whales Of The West Coast written by David A. E. Spalding and has been published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Nature categories.
Whales of the West Coast is the whale book we have been waiting for. -Anne Moon, Victoria Times-Colonist Excerpted in Canadian Forum
Seasonal Gray Whales In The Pacific Northwest
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Author : André E. Punt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Seasonal Gray Whales In The Pacific Northwest written by André E. Punt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Cetacea populations categories.
"A small group of gray whales, known as the Pacific Coast Feeding Group, or PCFG spends the summer and autumn along the Pacific coast of North America, where they overlap with the Makah Tribe's Usual and Accus tomed (U&A) fishing grounds off the coast of Washington. In 2005, the Makah requested that NOAA/NMFS waive the MMPA take moratorium and adopt regulations that would authorize the tribe to hunt ENP gray whales within their U&A. As part of its review of this proposed hunt, NMFS continues to evaluate information relevant to ENP stock structure a nd status, including the population dynamics of the PCFG. Assessing whether the PCFG is currently at Optimum Sustainable Population (OSP) (i.e., not depleted) was the objective of the analysis described in this report 1. The assessment is based on modifications to an existing population dynamics model used by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to conduct projections of gray whale abundance. The model is deterministic, age- and sex-structured, and consists of two groups (the 'north' group and the PCFG) , which are assumed to be separate for purposes of the analysis, but with possible immigration between them. Parameter estimation is based on Bayesian methods"--Summary
An Ecological Characterization Of The Pacific Northwest Coastal Region
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
An Ecological Characterization Of The Pacific Northwest Coastal Region written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Coastal ecology categories.
Alaska S Whaling Coast
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Author : Dale Vinnedge
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-05
Alaska S Whaling Coast written by Dale Vinnedge and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-05 with Photography categories.
In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through the melting ice, and the Inuit way of whalingin fact, their entire livelihoodwould be forever changed. Baleen was worth nearly $5 a pound. But the new trading posts brought guns, alcohol, and disease. In 1905, a new type of whaling using modern steel whale-catchers and harpoon cannons appeared along the Alaskan coast. Yet the Inuit and Inupiat continue whaling today from approximately 15 small towns scattered along the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait. Whaling for these people is a life-or-death proposition in a land considered uninhabitable by many, for without the whale, whole villages probably could not survive as they have for centuries.
An Ecological Characterization Of The Pacific Northwest Coastal Region Characterization Atlas Regional Synopsis
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
An Ecological Characterization Of The Pacific Northwest Coastal Region Characterization Atlas Regional Synopsis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biotic communities categories.