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FutureFish 2001: FutureFish in Century 21: The North Pacific Fisheries Tackle Asian Markets, the Can-Am Salmon Treaty, and Micronesian Seas (1997-2001)

by C.D. Bay-Hansen

458 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0106; ISBN 1-55369-293-4; US$35.00, C$42.99, EUR28.00, £19.40

A complete history of fisheries and markets of East Asia and Southeast Asia throught the 1990s. This is followed by two small sections of Alaska, B.C. and Washington, and a huge section on the fisheries of Micronesia.

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About the Book, from the author This is the companion volume to FutureFish in Century 21: The North Pacific Fisheries Handle Coming Trends, Radical Environmentalism, and Digital Cyberspace (1991-1992, 1994-1997), Like the latter, this volume was (also) gleaned from the original FutureFish -- which had by 1999 grown to an unwield tome numbering 57 type-written pages! As told in Author's Update 2000 in my first volume of FutureFish in Century 21, the split into two books came naturally and easily (after some soul-searching). But the creation of two smaller offerings was essential in meeting Trafford Publishing's 500 page-limit for "perfect bound". It has ended up as a painless Solomonic compromise despite dividing my "baby"! This companion volume, FutureFish 2000: FutureFish in Century 21: The North Pacific Fisheries Tackle Asian Markets, the Can-Am Salmon Treaty, and Micronesian Seas (1997-2001), also discusses aqua/mariculture, Norwegian Americana, and the significant U.S. elections of 1996 and 1998. Most important for this writer, however, has been the chance to include an addended chapter, 'A Modest Proposal for Micronesia'. As a 1981 U. Hawai'i M.A. graduate in Pacific history, doing a section on the Pacific Islands--after a long absence--has been particularly gratifying. I sincerely hope both Canadian and American readers enjoy it. Thanks again to Mr. Francis E. Caldwell of Port Angeles, Wash., and to Trafford Publishing of Victoria, B.C., for the opportunity to publish and publicise both my books. As expressed in the Trafford 'Author's Guide', "Some people see on-demand publishing as a paradigm breakthrough in terms of democratizing book publishing. If it proves to be that significant, it's anyone's guess about all the ramifications." Right on, eh?! -C.D.B-H. Port Angeles, Wash. March, 2001 excerpt from review by David Rahn, ed., Fisherman Life (Port Moody, BC) "...A unique and interesting vision by a man who cares passionately about the resource."

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About the Author C.D. Bay-Hansen is a 55-year-old fisheries writer who was born in Norway and raised in England, New England and New York. Although he attended a posh Eastern prep school as a teenager, Bay-Hansen found the time to work on an Israeli kibbutz (summer of '61) and on a Norweigan cargo ship (summer of '63), sailing to and from South America. After a U.S. Army hitch during the late 1960s, Bay-Hansen eventually returned to college. He earned his B.A. at Seattle Pacific University in 1978 and his M.A. (in Pacific history) at the University of Hawai'i in 1981. An "empty-nester" with three adult children, Bay-Hansen presently lives in Port Angeles, Washington, where he has resided with his wife since 1987. Visit the website for FutureFish 2000

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Introduction

POST PRODUCTION: "The Annuals of a Norwegian-American Ex-Seafood Processor, 1991-1999"

"Follow [M]e, and I will make you fishers of men"
    --Matt. 4:19 b (KJV)

    During the late 1970s Joe Upton came out with a successful book on the industry, Alaska Blues: A Fisherman's Journal (Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co., 1977). I read it during the early 1980s, liked it well enough, but couldn't understand why it had done so well. But... Joe Upton had been a true-blue Salmon fisherman; in Alaska no less. Away down (in the Lower 48) in the industrial pecking order I had, briefly enough, been a lowly shellfish processor and sometime cook. But... I had also been trained as a Pacific historian (U. Hawai'i at Manoa, 1979-1981), and possessed an M.A.; no less. Surely, then, I could write as well as Joe Upton could fish and take photographs? Meanwhile, things weren't working out as I had hoped, and I quit both the University of Victoria and the Province of British Columbia in January 1987, full of self-disgust and in self-disgrace. But... now settled in Port Angeles, Washington, I did manage to complete an academic monograph on the North Pacific fisheries, eventually splitting the work into two small volumes (Fisheries of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Vols. 1 and 2), and had them put out sequentially (1991 and 1994) by a subsidy publishing company (Vantage Press, Inc.) in New York City.
    As I draw near to completing this third book, I realise that if those first two small volumes had too much fish content; FutureFish in the Coming Conservative Century has perhaps too little. As they say, "You can't please 'em all", and Fisheries of the Pacific Northwest Coast, both volumes, did not do well commercially, although the few letters (and fewer reviews) were favourable. I decided by 1994 that FutureFish would have something for everybody -- and it does. My opus magnum started out as one thing, but will end up as something else entirely. For FutureFish has grown far beyond its original parametres, becoming a personal journal (like Joe Upton's), with each chapter (i.e., "The Annuals"; every chapter a year, for 1991 - 1992, 1994-1999) remaining unchanged as written at the time. Despite being somewhat a lexicon of popular culture in parts, and always reflecting my traditional Christian world-view, FutureFish is a history. I am, after all, just a historian -- a mere "Moog - synthesizer" of historical information, no matter how apparently low in nature or seemingly insignificant in source. Thus FutureFish stretches a span -- in time and space -- that ranges from Newfoundland to the New Age; from Microsoft to "Macronesia". There are portraits of depth---and brief sketches of personality, including cyberweasels Bill Gates and Paul Allen; undead counterculture idols Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia; fear-mongers Ted Kaczynski and Jeremy Rifkin; pc and cw scientists Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke; paradigm-shifters Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein; frightful [fellow] Norwegian Knut Hamsun, and fearsome [fellow] American Thorstein Veblen.
    Indeed, I have sometimes gotten carried away, and have all too often vented my aching spleen against hypocrisies perceived in Norwegian and American religious, cultural, and political institutions. (Nonetheless, I must have thrown out more than a hundred pages of notes and scribblings.) But the essential subject of discourse has remained constant throughout: The North Pacific fisheries and seafood industry, with its epicentre at North Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., 1991-1999. There are solid sections on the Western Pacific Rim, neo-Darwinism and the new physics, Seattle and cyberspace, Norwegian America, the New Age religion of ecologism; "weird science" vs. "wise use", and, of course, the future of fish, fishing, and the seafood industry of our Pacific Northwest Coast. (And the reader should note that the root word "conserve", as in "conservative", is the same root word as in "conservation".)
    C.D.B-H,
    Port Angeles, Wash.
    July 1998

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