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Blending personal recollection with candid critique, it examines changing fishing practices, the effects of salmon-farming, and what has gone wrong in fish stocks, management, and community stewardship. The foreword frames the loss as more than economics or politics, emphasizing damaged ecosystems, limited scientific knowledge, and the need for responsibility in how people work, play, and consume.","Eric Wickham  \nForeword by Dr. David Suzuki  \nCopyright © 2002 Eric Wickham  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without express written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.  \nNational Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication  \nWickham, Eric, 1942-  \nDead fish and fat cats : a no-nonsense journey through our dysfunctional fishing industry / Eric Wickham.  \nISBN 1-894694-18-X  \n1. Pacific salmon fisheries--Canada.  \n2. Fishery management--Canada.  \n3. Wickham, Eric, 1942-.  \n4. Fishers--Canada--Pacific Coast--Biography.  \nI. Title.  \nSH349. W52 2002 338.3’72756’09711 C2002-904014-0  \nCover and book design: Fiona Raven  \nCopy editing: Neall Calvert Front cover cat illustration: Teresa Waclawik Front cover fish illustration: Annie Branley / Optima Printing Back cover photograph: Steve Bosch / Vancouver Sun  \nFirst Printing January 2003  \nPrinted in Canada  \nSuite 212–1656 Duranleau Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 3S4 Tel 604-688-0320 Toll-free 1-877-688-0320 [www.granvilleislandpublishing.com](www.granvilleislandpublishing.com)  \nContents  \nForeword ................................................................... v  \n1. How I used to catch salmon ............................... 1  \n2. Modern ways to catch fish ................................. 19  \n3. OK, what did happen to the salmon? ............. 46  \n4. Salmon-farm fever ................................................ 69  \n5. Museum notes from a fishing village ............ 92  \n6. The scholar’s plan .................................................. 120  \n7. When the fishermen take over ......................... 128  \n8. Epilogue .................................................................... 165  \nDedicated  \nto my three wonderful daughters Andrea, Sara and Britta  \nAcknowledgments  \nI would like to thank Jim Heath for all his assistance and introducing his wonderful sense of humour to thebook, Tom Simons for spending years encouraging me to write it, Bob Alfort and John Sanderson for their valuable suggestions, and the team at Granville Island Publishing: publisher and managing editor Jo Blackmore, designer Fiona Raven, and copyeditor Neall Calvert.  \nv  \nForeword  \nby Dr. David Suzuki  \nWhen I wrote my autobiography, Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life, the reviewer for the Globe and Mail commented that, judging from the pictures and number of references, I obviously loved fish more than my first wife. My earliest memories of childhood all revolve around fishing, hiking and camping. That’s where I learned my most important biology lessons, and for years Iyearned to be a fish biologist.  \nI remember accompanying my dad in the late 1930s to jig for halibut off Spanish Banks in Vancouver, troll for sea-run cutthroats around Stanley Park, catch sturgeon in the Fraser and hike up the Vedder River for steelhead and Dolly Varden. Those were some of the happiest and most formative times in my life.  \nToday fishing remains in the family blood and my grandchildren often call, begging to be taken fishing. But there’s no way I could take them to experience what I did as a child, because the fish are gone. Within the lifetimes of my own children, I’ve watched once plentiful and huge ling and rock cod disappear, abundant herring decline drastically, the Vancouver Sun Salmon Derby cancelled for lack of salmon, abalone vanish. 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