The Western Flyer: Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries, by Kevin M. Bailey
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In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed: the original Western Flyer, immortalized in John Steinbeck’s nonfiction classic The Log from the Sea of Cortez. In this book, Kevin M. Bailey resurrects this forgotten witness to the changing tides of Pacific fisheries. He draws on the Steinbeck archives, interviews with family members of crew, and more than three decades of working in Pacific Northwest fisheries to trace the depletion of marine life through the voyages of a single ship. After Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts—a pioneer in the study of the West Coast’s diverse sea life and the inspiration behind “Doc” in Cannery Row—chartered the boat for their now-famous 1940 expedition, the Western Flyer returned to its life as a sardine seiner in California. But when the sardine fishery in Monterey collapsed, the boat moved on: fishing for Pacific ocean perch off Washington, king crab in the Bering Sea off Alaska, and finally wild Pacific salmon—all industries that would also face collapse. As the Western Flyer herself faces an uncertain future—a businessman has bought her, intending to bring the boat to Salinas, California, and turn it into a restaurant feature just blocks from Steinbeck’s grave—debates about the status of the California sardine, and of West Coast fisheries generally, have resurfaced. A compelling and timely tale of a boat and the people it carried, of fisheries exploited, and of fortunes won and lost, The Western Flyer is environmental history at its best: a journey through time and across the sea, charting the ebb and flow of the cobalt waters of the Pacific coast.
The Western Flyer: Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries, by Kevin M. Bailey- Amazon Sales Rank: #846704 in Books
- Brand: Bailey, Kevin M.
- Published on: 2015-03-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .80" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 184 pages
Review “Steinbeck and Ricketts’s six-week adventure dominates the early part of the book . . . , but the author, a Pacific Fisheries scientist and a founding director of the Man & Sea Institute, also discusses the plight of the Pacific Fisheries. He easily segues from one to the other. . . . The narrative has turns that are anecdotal, gossipy, speculative, and analytical.” (Frank Caso Simply Charly)“Deserve[s] a space on your eReader or on your nightstand. . . . Any devoted Steinbeck fan should be familiar with The Western Flyer, the ship at the heart of The Log from the Sea of Cortez, one of Steinbeck’s nonfiction works. In this book, Kevin M. Bailey ties the narrative of the legendary boat with the spread of Pacific fisheries and, ultimately, their downfall thanks to absentminded overfishing.” (Mike Newman Cool Material)"Bailey rekindles the vibrant story of the Western Flyer, the fishing vessel that carried John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts across the Sea of Cortez. The vessel, once earmarked to become part of a restaurant, is now scheduled to be used for marine education." (Seattle Times)"Interspersed with quotations from Steinbeck, as Philip Hoare’s The Whale references Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, this well-written book will appeal to readers concerned with fishery conservation and the importance of fishing to the local economy. . . . Of interest both to Steinbeck fans and readers of Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish." (Judith B. Barnett, University of Rhode Island Library, Kingston Library Journal)"A rich blend of philosophy, ecology, history, and first-rate literature lies behind the unassuming title. . . . Bailey uses the odyssey of the Western Flyer to illustrate the exuberance that accompanies the exploitation of a newly discovered fisheries resource, the all too common depletion that ensues, and the ongoing struggle to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way. . . . The final pages of this book are lyrical prose at its finest, and almost seem to channel Steinbeck." (Donald Gunderson, University of Washington Carmel Finley Blog)“[Noted in] Think Green: A Sampling of 2015 Titles.” (Publishers Weekly)“Well-researched and written with deep passion and knowledge for the boat and the fish harvested from it, Bailey’s short book is a fine tribute to the Western Flyer, as well as a poignant warning about humanity’s impact on the globe.” (David B. Williams Seattle Times)“Bailey’s clear and concise account of her complicity in the serial destruction of crucial fisheries in the Pacific Northwest after her role in the romantic, literary, philosophical, and ecological immersion of Sea of Cortez cannot help but drive a conscientious reader toward Bailey’s goal: to understand, as Ricketts and Steinbeck did, that the oceans and their fisheries must survive or we do not. Thus the Western Flyer story, so full of irony, will have a happy ending after all. A player in the mindless, greedy, irresponsible damage of untold natural fishery resources, so near death from neglect that some said it couldn’t be done, The Western Flyer rises again, this time as an icon of ocean-life preservation: a seagoing classroom for students of ecology and the marine sciences. Kevin Bailey’s little book has the tight, complete, joyful feeling of John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. Yet it’s so packed with helpful information and remarkable detail that my copy was well marked up, underlined, and highlighted when I finished. Yours will be, too.” (Michael Kenneth Hemp, founder of The History Company and Cannery Row Foundation Steinbeck Now)“A worthwhile addition to the environmental canon, and while it builds off of The Sea of Cortez, it stands alone as its own work. . . . Through Bailey’s summary of Steinbeck and Ricketts’ explorations we find humans capable of understanding the natural world on which we all depend. His history of the boat’s trajectory through collapsing fisheries, however, shows humans as stubbornly unwilling to learn many simple yet crucial lessons. It’s a sad but necessary book.” (Alaska Dispatch News)“Bailey works hard to uncover the Western Flyer’s life apart from its celebrity status. Salmon, crab, and tuna flipped, skittered, flopped, and then stilled on its deck; its succession of captains wielded it with bravado or sold it out of despair. Bailey shows that the life of the Western Flyer mirrored that of the fishing industry, promising endless riches, yet, in reality, often facing a near-fatal decline.” (Hakai Magazine)“A superbly researched and illustrated book.” (WoodenBoat)“Bailey, a former fishery biologist, presents expert descriptions of West Coast fisheries that were overexploited and eventually collapsed. The chronology begins with the sardine, once one of the world's largest fisheries, and continues with the ocean perch, king crab, and finally the salmon. In essence, the book is a valuable conservation lesson, one that should be read by every aspiring fishery biologist. . . . Recommended.” (J. C. Briggs, Oregon State University Choice)“From shrimp in the Sea of Cortez to sardines and Pacific ocean perch on the West Coast, from salmon to king crab, the story of these fisheries is consistent with the spread of fisheries—and overfishing—in general, from coastal waters near major population centers to areas that are increasingly farther offshore, deeper, and more remote. Along with the effects this approach has had on marine life, The Western Flyer also illuminates the impact it has had on coastal communities. Kevin M. Bailey uses this boat to help people see how we have serially depleted one population of marine life after another, and how we have repeated the rationale justifying it all across time and place without learning from past experiences.” (John Hocevar, Oceans campaign director, Greenpeace USA)“There are many ways to write about this lovely book. Piecing together the history of the Western Flyer—the boat made famous by John Steinbeck’s voyage to the Sea of Cortez—Kevin M. Bailey delivers a fascinating, complex, and compelling portrait. Bailey weaves together illuminating stories of how Steinbeck’s time on this sturdy, seaworthy vessel is reflected in his writing with tales of fishermen who skippered the boat, the seas they fished, and the fish they caught and ultimately didn’t catch, assembling a powerful and evocative history that might otherwise be forgotten, but which must not be lost if we are ever to return our once-plentiful ocean to abundance.” (Deborah Cramer author of "Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage" and "Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World")
About the Author Kevin M. Bailey is the founding director of the Man & Sea Institute and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. He formerly was a senior scientist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and is the author of Billion-Dollar Fish: The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fished Out By toronto This is in some ways a disappointing book. It does its official task very well -- giving the history of the Western Flyer throughout its lifetime, and uses it to describe a series of ecological crashes up the west coast of North America -- a depressing, recurring tale of human greed and stupidity. Nobody learns anything until long after nothing is left. The author is a fisheries man and tells those stories interestingly, and weighs the varying hypotheses of what caused the crashes very well. There is quite a bit of information on the backgrounds of the fishermen (SIcilian mostly), net and boat types, and the background to the industrial development and over-development (not to mention the inevitable self-serving excuses and nonsense promulgated by impressive business leaders and their tame scientists as things start to go wrong). What is missing is what I assumed the book was going to give us somewhere, which is a discussion of how the world of the fisheries influenced the ecological vision of Ed Ricketts (and by extension Steinbeck). In fact, there is even a chapter named "the ecological vision of Ed Ricketts" (!), but apart from a brief description that he was an ecological holist (which is not explained) none of the richness of Rickett's vision is explored or analysed -- it is just given over to what Ricketts believed were the reasons for the demise of the sardines. There is almost nothing here on Between Pacific Tides, or anything more than a brief sketch of the Sea of Cortez voyage. The Sea of Cortez volume is a touchstone document in the history of modern ecology (and ecological literature). The author complains that fisheries people don't talk to ecology people, and then is guilty of his own complaint! I give it three stars for the fisheries history -- it would be a good reference for people working through other fisheries collapses (proliferating around the world for the same dreary reasons) -- and the notes and references are solid; but this book could have been so much more. The recent book, Leopold's Shack and Rickett's Lab, covers some of the missing material (though it isn't much of a book either); an interested reader should head for the recent collection of Ricketts' work, Breaking Through. We are still looking for the right book -- fisheries, ecology, and literature -- on Steinbeck, Ricketts, Joseph Campbell and the whole Monterey Bay saga.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. She was built on speculation in a Tacoma shipyard as a state of the art Pacific coast seiner during the great depression. The au By Bob Hitz A fascinating book, one you will want as a reference on your bookshelf. It is not just a book about the Western Flyer that Steinbeck made famous with his trip to the Sea of Cortez, but is also about four major Pacific coast fisheries it was involved with during its lifetime. She was built on speculation in a Tacoma shipyard as a state of the art Pacific coast seiner during the great depression. The author describes Steinbeck’s trip and each of the fisheries in detail, not only the methods used but also the politics which were competing to control the fisheries. And it is interesting reading because of the individuals involved, in both the vessel and industry. There is hope for saving parts of the Western Flyer before her final demise, and the same hope exists for the four major fisheries.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Legendary skippers like the pioneering Dan Luketa and the fearsome Jackie Ray ... By Donald Gunderson A rich blend of philosophy, ecology, history, and first-rate literature lies behind the unassuming title for “The Western Flyer: Steinbeck’s Boat, The Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries”. Writer and marine scientist Kevin Bailey uses the odyssey of the Western Flyer to illustrate the exuberance that accompanies the exploitation of a newly discovered fisheries resource, the all-too common depletion that ensues, and the ongoing struggle to exploit natural resources in a sustainable way.And what an odyssey this was. From the Tacoma shipyard where she emerged “with colored streamers set high and snapping”, to the Port Townsend dry dock where her worm-infested hulk lies in state, the Western Flyer was fated to participate in one poorly managed fishery after another. Sardines off California, Pacific ocean perch off Washington, and finally king crab off Kodiak. She ended her active days as a salmon tender in Puget Sound, and after a prolonged period of neglect she suffered two dockside sinkings.Legendary skippers like the pioneering Dan Luketa and the fearsome Jackie Ray (who actually sported a hook at the end of one arm) ruled the Western Flyer’s wheelhouse over the years, and she was manned by a colorful array of deck hands and hard working fishermen. Yet for a few brief interludes she saw service as a research vessel and scientists like Colin Levings and Ed Ricketts walked her decks. Levings participated in surveys that helped to save the halibut fishery from depletion. The iconoclastic Ricketts was a pioneering ecologist, and the model for “Doc” in Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row”.Four weeks in the spring of 1940, when John Steinbeck—an accomplished naturalist in his own right—chartered the Western Flyer for an expedition to the Sea of Cortez, would destine her for a permanent place in history. It was during this voyage that Steinbeck and Ricketts carefully documented the fauna of the Sea of Cortez, and elaborated their philosophy of the unity of mankind with the universe in general, and the earth’s ecosystems in particular. Steinbeck’s “Log from the Sea of Cortez” was the most notable product of this collaboration, and Bailey correctly orients it as a pioneering work in the canon of ecological holism, together with those of John Muir and Aldo Leopold. “It is advisable to look from the tidepool to the stars and then back to the tidepool again.” wrote Steinbeck and Ricketts.In “Log from the Sea of Cortez”, Steinbeck wrote “The true biologist deals with life, with teeming boisterous life, and learns something from it.” And so he did—in collaboration with Ed Ricketts.Steinbeck observed that fish schools “turned as a unit and dived as a unit. In their millions they followed a pattern minute as to direction and depth and speed. There must be some fallacy in our thinking of these fish as individuals.” “And this larger animal, the school, seems to have a nature and drive and ends of its own accord. It is more than different from the sum of its units,” and seemed to be “directed by a school intelligence“.For Steinbeck, this provided insight into human behavior. “A man in a group isn’t himself at all…I want to watch these group-men, for they seem to me to be a new individual, not at all like single men.”Ricketts showed similar insight. “With their many and their very large boats, with their industry and efficiency, but most of all by their intense energy, the Japanese very obviously will soon clean out the shrimp resources of Guaymus…But there again is the conflict of nations, of ideologies, of two conflicting organisms. And the units in those organisms are themselves good people, people you’d like to know.”In Bailey’s words, the Japanese fishermen “…knew what they were doing was wrong, but they did it for the sake of the superorganism, the industrial company.” Fishermen, fishing vessels like the Western Flyer, corporations, resource management agencies and even economies can be viewed as nested superorganisms existing within the ecosystems that support them. Each of these groupings can thrive only if those ecosystems do. Yet the record of successfully sustaining those ecosystems is a checkered one, with many natural resources suffering the same fate as those exploited by the Western Flyer.Bailey uses the Western Flyer’s current condition as a metaphor for the hulk that the once prosperous Pacific Salmon resource has become—so badly damaged that the costs of repairing her may be prohibitive. While Alaska salmon have been managed properly and continue to support vibrant commercial fisheries, the costs of rebuilding salmon resources in Washington, Oregon, and California will be enormous and we may not know how to accomplish this. Will future generations simply write them off?The final pages of this book are lyrical prose at its finest, and almost seem to channel Steinbeck. The Salinas valley that Steinbeck loved so deeply seems to become a living, breathing organism. Bailey suggests that it is perhaps here that the Western Flyer should spend its final days—an icon high on Mount Toro, “witness to the fog drifting in and out of the valley”, a ghost ship with her ribs “sounding out in the wind”.How appropriate. The Western Flyer testifying to lost resources, lost opportunities, and mankind’s conflicting roles as both exploiter and shepherd of the earth’s natural resources. Bailey has found poetry in this.
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