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Centuries-old soot from humans melting glaciers, fertilizing ocean off Alaska ...

Alaska Dispatch - Feb 22, 2012
Organic grit from human activities -- preserved by glaciers for centuries and now flushing into the ocean in a colossal regional meltdown -- may be fueling the marine food web of the Gulf of Alaska and other coastal ecosystems in unprecedented ways, ...

Week ahead focuses on important bills

Homer Tribune - Feb 22, 2012
I was pleased that my House Bill 60, enabling a new economic base for coastal communities around the Gulf of Alaska by allowing lucrative geoduck clam mariculture, passed from Senate Resources Committee. I am pleased that House Finance will be hearing ...

Fish with finesse: Prep seafood at home to net top-notch results

FireEngineering.com - Feb 22, 2012
They risk life and limb in the arctic, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. The fearless, manly men wrangle massive crab pots from angry seas under dangerous conditions, occasionally losing a finger or even a shipmate to the fishing ...

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Gulf Of Alaska books

Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas

by: Spike Walker
No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches of on-deck labor); but the payback, if one survives can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season.

In a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing--a modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune-and adventure-hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters--and the crash that followed.
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Nights of Ice: True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas

by: Spike Walker
Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage of those who brave nature's wrath each fishing season, and to the uncontrolled power of nature herself.. The crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ice. Tested by the elements, these seamen battle for their vessels and their lives, on every page evincing a level of courage and a will to live seldom found elsewhere in modern society.
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