An informative, easy read

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	• Hard Times and a Nickel a Bucket: Struggle and Survival in North Carolina's Shrimp Industry John R. Maiolo Chapel Hill Press, 2004 - 191 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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An informative, easy read

This is a comprehensive and entertaining history of the development of commercial fishing in the southeast. It is also very informative with regard to the momentum coastal development has, and which is threatening the source of its development in the first place--fishing. As multiple use zones, our coastal communities now are the intersections of a variety of conflicting interests. This is one of the few books that chronicles how this has happened, and the incredible ability of fishermen to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances.

Thirty years of research have produced a book which examines the history and problems fishermen, marketers, and managers face every day--changes in technology, competition among the harvesters, and the devastating impacts of imports. The narrative deals with how the parties to the industry innovate and adapt. The communities within which the fishery developed and flourished are described as well (e.g., Southport, Harkers Island, Beaufort), along with (1) the modern forces of change reshaping their economic bases and cultural milieux, and (2) important changes in the racial and ethnic composition of the industry.

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