If Maine fishing life is interesting to you, Linda Greenlaw's non fiction books, in particular "The Hungry Ocean", are authoritative, incisive, and make the quo

If Maine fishing life is interesting to you, Linda Greenlaw's non fiction books, in particular "The Hungry Ocean", are authoritative, incisive, and make the quotidian compelling. A novel, "The Highliners" by William McCloskey, is a coming of age set in the Alaska commercial fishery. Also good. While fascinating and culturally rich, I think it's fair to say that small scale commericial fishing is a hard way make a marginal living. It's a privilege to have other options to get by.