FISHING

“The culmination of a lifetime’s research into the industry – its pioneers, its personalities and its enormous value to the country. From the oyster cutters of the 1800s and mullet canneries of the early twentieth century, to the declaration of a 200 mile zone in 1978 and the quota management system, David Johnson provides a vivid record of the people, the companies and the government administration of commercial fishing. More tha this, he also covers aquaculture and marine farming, Maori traditional fishing and Treaty of Waitangi fishing rights, and the development of modern value-addded processing that has seen the industry earn almost $2 billion a year in exports. This comprehensive book is based on extensive research, including interviews with over 150 people and studies of company archives, newspaper records and government reports. It is profusely illustrated with more than 250 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished.”

• 551 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
• FINE Hardcover in Dustjacket. (Heavy oversized book. May incur additional postage cost.) #290624
• Prologue: The great fish of Maui
• Ch. 1. Kaimoana
• Ch. 2. Seals, whales and dried fish
• Ch. 3. Feeding the settlers
• Ch. 4. Delicious bivalves
• Ch. 5. Beam trawlers and refrigeration
• Ch. 6. Fish in cans
• Ch. 7. Making laws
• Ch. 8. Combining steam with a trawl net
• Ch. 9. Ayson’s experiments
• Ch. 10. Fishing is an industry
• Ch. 11. The price of fish
• Ch. 12. Matters of state
• Ch. 13. Dallies and Danish seine boats
• Ch. 14. The State makes the rules
• Ch. 15. There’s an Aussie in our waters
• Ch. 16. Fishing through the war
• Ch. 17. Crayfish
• Ch. 18. Fishing in a straitjacket
• Ch. 19. Fishing communities
• Ch. 20. The Scott Report
• Ch. 21. A brave new world
• Ch. 22. The Japanese invasion
• Ch. 23. The Chathams rush
• Ch. 24. Bluff oysters
• Ch. 25. Steel boats and new money.
• Ch. 26. Pelagic fish
• Ch. 27. Fishermen and unions
• Ch. 28. Fueling the frenzy
• Ch. 29. Foreigners in our waters
• Ch. 30. Joint ventures
• Ch. 31. Fishing in deep waters
• Ch. 32. Scooping up the snapper
• Ch. 33. The great tuna chase
• Ch. 34. A time of experimentation
• Ch. 35. Less fish and more boats
• Ch. 36. The inshore revolution
• Ch. 37. Fine tuning
• Ch. 38. From Waitangi to Sealord
• Ch. 39. Choppy waters
• Ch. 40. New Zealandisation
• Ch. 41. Mussels in mud and mussels on ropes
• Ch. 42. From paua patties to blue pearls
• Ch. 44. Internationalisation
• Conclusion / by Jenny Haworth
• App. 1. The last whalers
• App. 2. Maori and the Treaty of Waitangi in the nineteenth century
• App. 3. Wild mussels
• Includes index.
• David Johnson died in 2000, before the completion of this book.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-541) and index.
• Maori (New Zealand people) — Fishing
• Fishing — New Zealand — History
• Fisheries — New Zealand — History
• Fishery law and legislation — New Zealand — Historyeavy