British Sea-Fishermen Blues Commercial Fisheries News National Fisherman Men's Lives Old Man and the Sea Alaska Fisherman's Journal Distant Waters At The Hand Of Man Encyclopedia Of Fish Cookery Wetland Riders The Perfect Storm Captains Courageous Patterns in the Ocean The following is a listing of various publications of, about or around some aspects commercial fishing that we have found are useful or that have caught our attention at one time or another. The list isn't anywhere near comprehensive, nor is it meant to be. We will, however, be adding to it as often as possible.

 
 

Title	Description	Author
Blues	A summer of seeking and catching bluefish	John Hersey
Encyclopedia of Fish Cookery	Everything you ever wanted to know about seafood	A.J. McClane &  Arie deZanger
Men's Lives	The story of the commercial fishing communities on Long Island, NY	Peter Matthiessen
Commercial Fisheries News	A trade publication focusing on New England and the Mid-Atlantic	Susan Jones (Editor)
National Fisherman	A trade publication that covers the industry on both coasts	Sam Smith (Editor)
Wetland Riders	Chronicles the political struggle of Louisiana fishermen to stay in business	Robert Fritchey
At The Hand Of Man	Reporting on the implementation of the international ivory ban	Raymond Bonner
The Perfect Storm	A 1991 storm and its tragic impact on the boats and people caught in it.	Sebastian  Junger
The Old Man and the Sea	The classic story of a man's struggle to land a tremenduous fish - a marlin	Ernest Hemingway
Captains Courageous	A coming of age story which details the lives of the Grand Banks dory fishermen	Rudyard Kipling
Distant Waters	The rise and fall of the factory trawler fleet in the North Atlantic	William W. Warner
British Sea-Fishermen	A survey of British  ports and fishing industry immediately after World War II	Peter F. Anson
Alaska Fisherman's Journal	Link to the site of one of the publication focusing on Alaskan fisheries	John Van Amerongen
Patterns in the Ocean	Fisheries population dynamics from an oceanographer's perspective	Andrew Bakun
In the Slick of the Cricket	The just-released book about "monster" fisherman Captain Frank Mundus	Russell Drumm
Effects of Fishing Gear on the Sea Floor of New England	Proceedings of a workshop on gear impacts	E. Dorsey & J. Pederson (editors)
Proceedings of The Environmental Impacts of Boating workshop	Proceedings of a workshop on boating impacts	R. Crawford, N. Stolpe & M. Moore (editors)
Fishing For Truth	A book detailing the Easrtern Canadian cod stock assessment process	Alan Christopher Finlayson
The Great Gulf (to author's web page)	"Explores the rift between fishermen and U.S. government scientists regarding how to count and manage the cod of New England's troubled groundfishery."	David Dobbs