Aku The History Of Tuna Fishing In Hawaii And The Western Pacific

Peter Wilson has played a key role in the development of the worlds largest and most important tuna resource in the Western Pacifi c. Aft er studying Japanese and Fisheries at the University of Washingtons College of Fisheries he became one of the initi al users of SCUBA gear for commercial fi shing. He was then hired by Bumble Bee Seafood Company to conduct fi sheries surveys in Japan, Okinawa, Palau, Palmyra, French Frigate Shoals, Johnston Island, Midway and elsewhere. Aft er establishing arti fi cial reefs in Guam and using explosives to create improved ocean circulati on in Tumon Bay for tourism development, he was retained by the Micronesian governments to head up fi sheries development for Palau, FSM and the Marshall Islands. During this period he established the fi rst commercial tuna fi shing operati on in the Western Pacifi c aft er WWII and dive industries in Palau and Truk (Chuuk). He then went to Oman to prepare a Five Year Fisheries Development Program and was then retained by FAO to serve as the Director of Fisheries and Advisor to Government of Papua New Guinea for seven years to head up their fi sheries operati ons, He then created Global Ocean Consultants and was then selected by the Republic of Maldives to establish a World Bank fi nanced tuna industry on a small atoll with no harbor, housing, power or water. GOC provided management and training services for fi ve years and during this period established a profi table cannery, can manufacturing plant, fi shmeal plant and brought producti on up to over 60 tons a day.

Introduction: political roles for fish populations -- The fishing empires of the Pacific: the Americans, the Japanese, and the Soviets -- Islands and war -- Manifest destiny and fishing -- Tariffs -- Industrialization -- Treaties -- Imperialism -- Enclosure -- Conclusions: updating the best available science

In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the sea" is both the subject and the backdrop for other facets of American history: U.S. foreign policy, immigration and environmental politics, and dietary trends. Smith recounts how tuna became a popular low-cost high-protein food beginning in 1903, when the first can rolled off the assembly line. By 1918, skyrocketing sales made it one of America’s most popular seafoods. In the decades that followed, the American tuna industry employed thousands, yet at at mid-century production started to fade. Concerns about toxic levels of methylmercury, by-catch issues, and over-harvesting all contributed to the demise of the industry today, when only three major canned tuna brands exist in the United States, all foreign owned. A remarkable cast of characters— fishermen, advertisers, immigrants, epicures, and environmentalists, among many others—populate this fascinating chronicle of American tastes and the forces that influence them.

From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.