#gillnetters

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[danicollinsauthor]

Are you ready to visit Raven’s Cove?

Read | Buy It is a true fact that I have a lot of books out this year. But this one is special. The whole Raven’s Cove trilogy is. They started when my aunt showed me photos of her visit to the island where my cousin had been working for more than a decade, in a remote part of Canada’s west coast. Denny Island is a tiny fishing village that you can only reach by ferry, boat or plane. I instantly thought, “What a great place to set a book.” Story wise, I’d been noodling something with three brothers and came up with: Three Men and a Baby on an Island . I sat on it for close to a year. Then, in 2018, my husband and I went to visit for a few days. It was a journey and a half to get there and so worth it. That corner of the world is beautiful and rugged and the village was tiny enough that everyone knows everyone’s business–my favorite kind of setting for a story. I came home and began to write, but things got in the way—other books and life and pandemic and loss. Sadly, my aunt passed, then my cousin. I can’t look at the covers, with their oceanside scenery, without thinking of Auntie Honey and Lorne. But these books are also a celebration of deep, intrinsic parts of me. Both of my grandfathers and my dad were gillnetters. They all visited that same tiny village as they traveled up the coast to fish. These stories became a love letter to this special part of Canada and my childhood and relatives I remember with deep, deep fondness. I really hope you’ll visit Raven’s Cove with Marrying the Nanny , then come back for Forgiving Her First Love in Jul and Book Three (untitled) which releases Oct 1. Spend the summer in Raven’s Cove! You won’t regret it. QUICKLINKS: Marrying the Nanny Read an Excerpt ✻ Buy All about the Raven's Cove Trilogy More Heartfelt Small Town Romance New to Dani? Find your next read→

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[deceptigoons-attack]

The sailing gillnetter on the right is the only one of its kind in the world. By 1989 there was no surviving example of a Columbia River sailing gillnetter. Researchers found old photos, and a set of drawings of a sailing gillnetter made around 1900.

The museum staff, volunteers, and outside consultants undertook extensive research to build a gillnetter that is as close as possible to the traditional. A crew of wooden boat builders from the Astoria area came together to create this beautiful replica.

[nordarknessdimsthesky]

would you rather rule the storms or would you rather rule the fishes

Oooh good question. I can see both being equally useful -- ruling the storms means i could give rain to areas with drought or redirect hurricanes. Ruling the fishes means i could move schools of fish away from gillnetters or trawl bags that are overfishing or i could help spawning salmon reach their natal streams. Levels of usefulness aside, ruling the fishes is probably more my speed

[pnwpol]

Sep 9, 2019 | John Helin, former gillnetter and current mayor of Lax Kw'alaams, says the lack of salmon has put pressure on other species of fish and there's been a decline in their numbers.

A statement from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans says the government understands and empathizes with the economic impacts of the declining salmon returns.

[fishmongeraes]

The Secret Lives of Commercial Fishermen

Corey Arnold photographs Alaska’s largest and most threatened salmon run—and the people who depend on it Clockwise from top left: Photo 1: The tail fin of a Sockeye Salmon caught in a gillnet while commercial fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Photo 2: Lindsey Bloom, captaining a Bristol Bay gillnetter out of Naknek, Alaska. Photo 3: Arnold hired Billie Delaney in 2012, after getting to know her on other crews. She’s “one of the toughest people I’ve ever worked with,” he says. The 30-year-old now runs her own boat. Photo 4: An abandoned building in Bristol Bay becomes a makeshift home in June and July for commercial Sockeye Salmon fishermen.

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Research Into Photographers

Matt Black 

Matt Black is from California’s Central Valley, an agricultural region in the heart of the state. His work has explored the connections between migration, poverty, agriculture, and the environment in his native rural California and in southern Mexico. He has traveled over 100,000 miles across 46 U.S. states for his project The Geography of Poverty. So he is documenting poverty across the world. It was taken in Alpaugh, Calif. Alpaugh is a town in Tulare County, California. The population is 1,026 and 55.4 percent live below the poverty level. Out of all the places he photographed, this place has the largest percentage of people who live below the poverty level. I really like this image as it is a shot of a girl in a building/house, the fact you can only really see her outline and her body and face has a shadow covering it. Which I think makes it look more effective as it could show that she is in darkness or is alone because of the awful situation she is in. I think the way he took this shot is really impressive as it really helps the observer attach emotions to the girl as we would feel sorry for her or sympathy towards her. 

                                             Sonja Hamad

                    These are her words to describe this project, “Jin - Jiyan - Azadi: Women, Life, Freedom” provides us with a powerful, unique look into the all-female fighting units in Kurdistan. Being born in Syria and having Kurdish parents, you must have felt a strong connection to the women you documented. What was it like for you, on a personal level, to spend time with these fighters? What did you learn from them?” I really like this shot as it shows female empowerment, how if women unite, we can work together to achieve something that is so powerful and important. I love the fact that it’s as if they are looking over something (the hill) which could symbolize inequality and how we should all treat each other with respect in order to make this world a better place. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Mustafah Abdulaziz

lassic Club Golf Course. Palm Desert, California, USA, 2015. 1986, New York City, USA. Lives in Berlin, Germany.  His on-going project Water has received support from the United Nations, WaterAid, WWF, VSCO, and Google, has been reviewed by Phaidon, Monopol and published in Der Spiegel, The New Yorker, TIME and The Guardian. Worked as the first contract photographer for The Wall Street Journal. In 2012, was named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch. His work has been exhibited at Strandvägen in Stockholm, The Scoop in London, Brooklyn Waterfront in New York City, König Galerie in Berlin and the National Geographic Museum in Washington D.C. He is documenting water shortage. I like this photo as it is composed really well, with the contrast between the bare, dry land and the deep green and blue of the water and greenary. The way it has been taken I think looks really effective as it is almost a birds eye view shot and really shows the difference between the dry land and the section that could be compared to the life of the photo. 

Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman by trade. He has worked seasonally as a commercial fisherman in Alaska since 1995, including seven years of crabbing in the Bering Sea aboard the f/v Rollo. Corey now captains a commercial gillnetter, harvesting wild and sustainable Sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska while living seasonally in an abandoned salmon cannery complex called Graveyard Point. His life’s work: Fish-Work is an ongoing photography series documenting the viceral experience of life at sea for commercial fishermen worldwide. Here is documenting ‘life at sea’, he has photographed an ‘action shot’ of a boat, with fishing gear and and people working on the boat. I really like this image, as the background is quite dull colours, blue, grey and white. Then there are splashes of neon colour, coming from the boyes and the workers, and looks really effective as they contrast well. I also like that it is an action shot, so you can see the crashing of the waves and the seagulls flying around it.                                                                                                                              

James Mollison

                                                                                                                      James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. His fourth book Where Children Sleep was published in November 2010- stories of diverse children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedroom. I like his style of photograph for this project, as he is showing where each child lives, by photographing a portrait of the child then a photo of their bedroom. I like the fact that he has shown both so we can sort of understand who lives their and feel an emotional connection towards them. For this specific one, it makes me feel sad and sympathy towards her as her sleeping situation is not that nice or clean. 

Toy Stories 

  Gabriele Galimberti, born in 1977, is an Italian photographer who frequently lives on airplanes, and occasionally in Val di Chiana (Tuscany), where he was born and raised. He has spent the last few years working on long-term documentary photography projects around the world, some of which have become books, such as Toy Stories, In Her Kitchen, My Couch Is Your Couch and The Heavens. Gabriele’s job consists mainly of telling the stories, through portraits and short stories, of people around the world, recounting their peculiarities and differences, the things they are proud of and the belongings with which they surround themselves; social media, in all its forms, is a fundamental part of the research needed to get in touch, discover and produce those stories. 

I think that this photo is trying to show the boys’ interest in dinosaurs, and could represent that his life is based around this hobby. I think it looks effective that he is stood on his bed but the toys are surrounding him, I also like the bright colours that are incorporated in the shot. 

Fan Ho 

Born in Shanghai in 1931, an award-winning photographer, won over 300 awards. This image is taken from the ‘a hong kong memoir’ collection, it was taken during 1950′s-60′s and printed during 1950′s-70′s. During this time Fan Ho was a one man working studio. He would photograph late afternoon, process and print his film at night, and do it all over the next day. Giving a sense of history, some of the images awards stamped on the back from competitions he entered. 

I like this image because the black and white looks really effective as the levels of depth of colour look really good and I also like that the light shining through the windows, and how bright it is , and that it contrasts with the deep black. 

Richard Billingham 

Richard Billingham’s “Ray’s a Laugh”, published in 2000 by Scalo, is a bone jarring chronicle of the parts of life that shouldn’t… the life that tried, but wouldn’t, and dreams that simply couldn’t.

I like his work, as he is just photographing his life, and what is surrounding him, I like the way he photographs as it is quite unusual the angles and what he chooses to photograph. I also like the fact he shoots in colour, as some of the most basic colours are really popping as the backgrounds are quite dull. But it tends to be their skin that is mainly catching your eye in the photos as the light is bouncing off it and making it stand out. I also like how it is such a basic idea yet looks so effective. 

Jim Goldberg

The photographs in this book constitute a shocking and gripping portrait of contemporary America. Jim Goldberg's photographs of rich and poor people, with the subjects' own handwritten comments about themselves on the prints, give us an inside look at the American dream at both ends of the social scale.His pictures reveal his subjects' innermost fears and aspirations, their perceptions and illusions about themselves, with a frankness that makes the portraits as engrossing as they are disturbing.

I chose this image, as I think it gives off a powerful message, he is trying to portray the way that people feel and what they go through day to day. I think his book of photographs is very effective the way he shoots his photographs. I also really like the fact he has included quotes from what people have said, as this really adds an emotional touch to the photos, it makes us as viewers really understand what the message is and the context of the photographs. 

Rich and Poor - Jim Goldberg

This is another example of Jim Goldbergs’ work, which shows the elements of rich and poor. The photographs in this book constitute a shocking and gripping portrait of contemporary America. Jim Goldberg's photographs of rich and poor people, with the subjects' own handwritten comments about themselves on the prints, give us an inside look at the American dream at both ends of the social scale.His pictures reveal his subjects' innermost fears and aspirations, their perceptions and illusions about themselves, with a frankness that makes the portraits as engrossing as they are disturbing.

This photograph was taken by Jim Goldberg, it is of a family that is probably quite poor as they are struggling for basic necessities such as clothes. This photograph was taken in 1979, in San Francisco. I think this photo is very effective as it shows a deep meaning behind quite a simple shot. I really like this shot as it is black and white so looks good with the shadows. 

[christinnekay]

F / V H I G H F L Y E R #HighFlyer #SalmonFishing #Gillnetter #PrayforSafetyandGoodBounty

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Gillnetters: A Land & Sea archival special

The gillnetters of Twillingate Island faced uncertainty in the 1980s as low earnings the previous year had put the upcoming season in jeopardy. (CBC)

In the 1980s, the Atlantic coast fishery was not in a good place. In times of sluggish markets and high interest rates, some thought the fish weren’t even there.

Inshore fishermen, the province’s longliners and gillnetters, were at the centre…

[atlanticcanada]

Gillnetters: A Land & Sea archival special

In the 1980s, the Atlantic coast fishery was not in a good place. The province's gillnetters were at the centre of it all.

from CBC | Newfoundland and Labrador News https://ift.tt/2RxTO42

[mike-maas-sr]

Happy birthday to my beautiful sister Rose ❤🌹🤗 (at The Gillnetter Pub) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9x2ibGHpA6dB0PDr2qgD59AxnXZwdI0z5qWfw0/?igshid=hcu3i921ubot

[kamchatkasalmon]

Military Approach to Taking Bristol Bay Salmon

October 3, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - Here’s an idea. Why not just live a few million in the ocean, that way we ca all enjoy these magnificent creatures. What is this? Purge the oceans of every god damn salmon there is? Watch what these people are doing. They are using military tactics and equipment to hunt down and take these salmon. All the way from trader and sonar equipment, to massive nets and hydraulics to capture its prey then kill them. Wtf fellas? Is it just me or do others feel the same way about these massive salmon catches? If the limit is let’s say 30,000 salmon per boat or whatever, why not leave 5,000 in the ocean? What’s wrong? Afraid the other fishermen are going to catch more than you? See how greed drives this whole salmon fishing industry? Have you heard of the work of Dr. Daniel Pauley and his baseline theory. Listen to what his views are on the ocean and all those creatures swimming in it. What do you want to sustain? Thing as they were?

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Source: Juneau Empire

Fishermen catch 2 billionth sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay this year

‘It wasn’t supposed to happen this fast

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 

Gillnetters in the water on a recent year in Bristol Bay. (Courtesy Photo | Chris Miller/csmphotos.com)

This year, during the fishery’s second largest harvest on record, Bristol Bay commercial fishermen hit another historic number: the 2 billionth sockeye salmon caught by commercial fishermen since record-keeping began in the late 1800s.

“It wasn’t supposed to happen this fast, but the last couple of seasons had huge returns,” said Nushagak/Togiak Area Management biologist Timothy Sands.

2019 was the fifth consecutive year that more than 50 million sockeye salmon returned to Bristol Bay.

In 2018, fishermen caught 41.9 million sockeye out of a record overall return of 62.3 million sockeye. In 2019, fishermen caught 43 million sockeye during a return of 56.5 million sockeye, meaning this year fishermen caught a higher percentage of the total return. (All rivers met their escapement goals — the amount of salmon swimming upriver necessary to ensure healthy future runs.)

Naknek

2019 was also the most valuable all-salmon-species harvest. The preliminary exvessel value, or estimated dollar amount the harvest earned fishermen when they sold to a processor, is $306.5 million.

Some may remember Bristol Bay passing another “2 billion” marker in 2016. That was the 2 billionth overall salmon caught in the region.

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The first billionth sockeye was caught in 1981 — the 98th year of Bristol Bay’s fishery. The Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation (BBEDC) points out that the 2 billionth sockeye came just 38 years later, which means that the size of the average harvest has been much bigger in recent years than it was at the start of the fishery. For the first 98 years, up to the first billionth sockeye caught, Bristol Bay’s average annual catch was a little more than 10 million fish per year. For the last 38 years, it’s been about 27 million sockeye per year.

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“I think it just speaks to the sustainability of the management system we have in place in Bristol Bay that after 136 years of fishing, we’re still having record runs and we’re able to sustainably harvest 2 billion sockeye salmon from the systems in Bristol Bay,” Sands said.

Scientists who study the Bristol Bay’s salmon attribute a large part of the area’s productivity to its diverse “portfolio” of salmon systems: some rivers may do well one year while others do well the next, depending on conditions. Just like an investment portfolio, diversity leads to overall better returns.

Please go to Juneau Empire to read the entire article.

[arjuatsea]

When I met Mohammad Alamgir and his gillnetter fishing crew back in May, it was a very strange summer day in Chittagong Fish Harbor. The overall mood at the harbor was one of frustration and desperation, to say the least.

This is the peak fishing season for Bay of Bengal artisanal fishers, still, more than one hundred artisanal gillnet boats were moored on the north side of the Karnaphuli River, close to the seventy million dollar cable-stayed bridge. In the dizzying heat, the bridge looked like a far away sillouhte.

Under the midday sun in low tide, the wooden planked boats with S-bottom and beautiful high-sheer bow were sitting silently on the oily mud of the port-channel. The deck of many boats was shaded with low-hanging tarps made of colorful whole cloths stitched together; giving the crews working under— making minor repairs or doing other chores— a little relief in the extreme heat.

Crew of a few boats was working shirtless under the scorching sun; repairing gillnets spread out on the recently built embankment which they use as a wharf. While many left for home, these fisherfolks were still hoping that authorities will spare poors like them from the ongoing marine fishing ban.

Otherwise, Mr. Alamgir said, the only option to feed their families during the ban is to borrowing money from predatory lenders.

This is June 21, and the ban is here to stay.

#FishingFuture #CoastalCommunities #BayofBengal

[sandylolahoney]

Last eve in #Kwikwetlem for a few weeks with my besties! And a sick ass #volvo #slick #yvrstyle #gratitude #love #sunshine #car (at The Gillnetter Pub) https://www.instagram.com/p/By3-0qpg8ak/?igshid=nfs750g2m9s4

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Research

Fan Ho

How does it make you feel? Looking at this image

Does it make the image work better?

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   Gabriele Galimberti 

Toy stories                                                 

Gabriele Galimberti, born in 1977, is an Italian photographer who frequently lives on airplanes, and occasionally in Val di Chiana (Tuscany), where he was born and raised. He has spent the last few years working on long-term documentary photography projects around the world, some of which have become books, such as Toy Stories, In Her Kitchen, My Couch Is Your Couch  and The Heavens.

How does it make you feel?

Does it make the image work better?

What camera techniques did they use?  

  Corey Arnold 

Fish work

Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman by trade. He has worked seasonally as a commercial fisherman in Alaska since 1995, including seven years of crabbing in the Bering Sea aboard the f/v Rollo. Corey now captains a commercial gillnetter, harvesting wild and sustainable Sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska while living seasonally in an abandoned salmon cannery complex called Graveyard Point. His life’s work: Fish-Work is an ongoing photography series documenting the viceral experience of life at sea for commercial fishermen worldwide.

How does it make you feel?

Does it make the image work better?

What camera techniques did they use?  

Woman in war

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BILLINGHAM

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