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“A Crime Against the World,” by Vladil Lysenko

Polar Star, by Martin Cruz Smith The blog has been busy, busy, busy!  We’re just back from the American Society of Environmental History meeting in Toronto (more on that later, but so nice to see so m… more →

Carmel Finley

Does Farming Pay?: The Debate Over the Value of Agricultural Work in New England — 1 comment

khronikos wrote 3 weeks ago: Does Farming Pay?: The Debate Over the Value of Agricultural Work in New England Cody Miller, Ph.D. … more →

Tags: environmental history, united states, New England, Agriculture, Farmer

‘The Methods Adopted By Market Gardeners Are In That Direction’: Market Gardeners and Soil Conservation in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

khronikos wrote 4 weeks ago: In honor of Earth Day, Khronikos is republishing last year’s Earth Day post by now UMaine Hist … more →

Tags: environmental history, united states, New England, New York, Massachusetts, Market Garden, Donald Worster, Boston, Agriculture

"A Crime Against the World," by Vladil Lysenko

finleyc wrote 1 month ago: Polar Star, by Martin Cruz Smith The blog has been busy, busy, busy!  We’re just back from the Ameri … more →

Tags: Carmel Finley, History of Science, history of technology, Maritime History, ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Sebastes rockfish, Soviet environmental history, Soviet fishing

Oregon's first fishery collapse

finleyc wrote 2 months ago: Captain George Moskovita fishing for shark livers We’re excited to see a new exhibit at the Co … more →

Tags: Fishing, George Moskovita, History of Science, history of technology, ocean fishing, Overfishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, columbia river maritime museum, shark livers

A link to my paper in ICES

finleyc wrote 2 months ago: President Harry Truman goes fishing, photo courtesy of Truman Presidential Library and Life magazine … more →

Tags: Carmel Finley, Fishing, History of Science, history of technology, Marine Policy, Maritime History, Maximum Sustained Yield (MSY), Pacific Fishing History Project, World History

Albacore tuna, the new Oregon fishery in 1937

finleyc wrote 3 months ago: Albacore tuna, image from the World Wildlife Organization It’s not often we get such a precise date … more →

Tags: Albacore tuna, California sardines, Dr. Naomi Clark, Dr. Willis H. Rich, Fisheries science, George Moskovita, History of Science, history of technology, Maritime History

An invitation to colloborate on writing the history of fishing and fisheries science

finleyc wrote 3 months ago: Captain George Moskovita With the start of the new year, it’s an appropriate time to make a re … more →

Tags: Carmel Finley, Fisheries science, Fishing, History of Science, history of technology, Marine Policy, Maritime History, ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project

In Memory of Dayton Lee Alverson, 1924-2013 — 1 comment

finleyc wrote 3 months ago: Dr. Dayton Lee Alverson It is with regret that we note the passing of Dayton Lee Alverson, a pioneer … more →

Tags: Fishing, Maritime History, ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Resources About Fishing, fisheries science

World War II and the Environment

Jacob Darwin Hamblin wrote 4 months ago: “World War II was wide ranging in its human, animal, and material destruction, it halted certa … more →

Tags: environmental history, History of Science, history of technology, Second World War, World War II

The Russians are Coming Here – 1965!

finleyc wrote 4 months ago: Charles R. (Bob) Hitz                                                    Jan. 9, 2013    Aboard the … more →

Tags: Fishing, History of Science, history of technology, Maritime History, ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Rosefish, Sebastes rockfish, Soviet environmental history

WordPress reviews our 2012 year

finleyc wrote 4 months ago: The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an … more →

Tags: Carmel Finley, George Yost Harry III, Jergen Westrheim, Pacific Fishery History Project, Pacific Ocean Perch, rosefish, Sebastes rockfish, Silent Spring

A Welcome to Charles R. (Bob) Hitz

finleyc wrote 4 months ago: Charles R. (Bob) Hitz is a marine biologist who worked for the U. S. Bob weighing a black cod. Burea … more →

Tags: Fishing, History of Science, history of technology, Maritime History, ocean fishing, Pacific Fishing History Project, Sebastes rockfish, EFGRB, john n cobb

The Western Flyer, a part of Northwest fisheries history

finleyc wrote 4 months ago: The F/V Gemini, which turned out to be the F/V Western Flyer chartered by John Steinbeck, after it w … more →

Tags: Pacific Fishing History Project, Fishing, Maritime History, ocean fishing, History of Science, California sardines, Research, Science, john steinbeck

A link to the Rachel Carson Center and my work

finleyc wrote 4 months ago: I’m home. I had an incredible time in Munich at the Rachel Carson Center. Here’s a link … more →

Tags: Pacific Fishing History Project, World History, Fishing, Sebastes rockfish, Rosefish, Carmel Finley, Maritime History, ocean fishing, Fisheries Policy

Where should historians send policy-relevant scholarship? — 6 comments

Jacob Darwin Hamblin wrote 5 months ago: Clio! Who will she talk to? Here’s a fairly mundane post but on a subject that I could use som … more →

Tags: History of Science, history of technology, Nuclear Issues, World Politics, History, history of science, history of public policy, policy history., Environmental Policy

Pacific Fisherman, from 1903 to 1911, Online!

finleyc wrote 5 months ago: Early issues of Pacific Fisherman are available online Historians have a special fondness for archiv … more →

Tags: Pacific Fishing History Project, Fishing, History of Science, history of technology, Pacific Fisherman, University of Washington Libraries, Miller Freeman

A trip to Nanaimo and a last visit with Jergen Westrheim

finleyc wrote 5 months ago: Charles R. (Bob) Hitz                                           Dec. 10, 2012 Carmel Finley sent me … more →

Tags: Pacific Fishing History Project, Fishing, Sebastes rockfish, Rosefish, ocean fishing, History of Science, history of technology, Soviet fishing, W. F. Thompson

Soviet fishing in the Gulf of Alaska during the 1930s

finleyc wrote 5 months ago: Chart of Soviet fishing in the Bering Sea during 1938 Since I’m a historian, I’m interested in why a … more →

Tags: Carmel Finley, Fisheries Policy, Fishing, History of Science, history of technology, Marine Policy, Maritime History, ocean fishing, Overfishing

In memory of Jergen Westrheim

finleyc wrote 6 months ago: We’ve lost a friend and the scientific community has long one its one of its finest practition … more →

Tags: Pacific Fishing History Project, Jergen Westrheim


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