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The Men All Singing: The Story of Menhaden Fishing
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January 7, 2023
I read most or all of this when I was working in the Pogey industry. A very little known industry.
Commercial fishing in the Gulf and the Atlantic.
Mississippi, Virginia, and Louisiana.
It was dominated by the last remnant of George HW Bush's Zapata Corporation, later to become Omega Protein. It couldn't be parcelled off to foreigners like the rest of Zapata because these here was American fish ... by the millions. Purse seine fishing. Products fish oil and fish meal.
Very recently, the not so foreign Canadians have bought this company.
It was a real good book, I still have it.
Commercial fishing in the Gulf and the Atlantic.
Mississippi, Virginia, and Louisiana.
It was dominated by the last remnant of George HW Bush's Zapata Corporation, later to become Omega Protein. It couldn't be parcelled off to foreigners like the rest of Zapata because these here was American fish ... by the millions. Purse seine fishing. Products fish oil and fish meal.
Very recently, the not so foreign Canadians have bought this company.
It was a real good book, I still have it.
June 10, 2025
Pros:
-Really unique and memorable topic.
-The guy who wrote this really is interested in these fish.
-Pogey is a cute word
-The Old Man and the Sea jokes write themselves
Cons:
-Most the chapters are hella nothing.
-It reads like a textbook you'd skim just to get the answers to a multiple choice or short answer exam.
-The men only sing in one chapter
2.75 stars, ranking as 2 because it really is stunningly boring
-Really unique and memorable topic.
-The guy who wrote this really is interested in these fish.
-Pogey is a cute word
-The Old Man and the Sea jokes write themselves
Cons:
-Most the chapters are hella nothing.
-It reads like a textbook you'd skim just to get the answers to a multiple choice or short answer exam.
-The men only sing in one chapter
2.75 stars, ranking as 2 because it really is stunningly boring
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