POST: Week 5, Day 2, Wednesday, September 24

We looked at these three in preparation for our paper on Friday.

Lunenburg : Lunenburg was a fisherman and schooner racer too.Lunenburg raced Gloucestor. Lunenburg built a bigger schooner '' The Bluenose ''for the compition. In 1969, it was Lunenburg's last fishing schhooner. (THIS WOULD GET A "0" IF I WERE GIVING IT A GRADE. THE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION IS MISSING: LUNENBERG IS NOT A FISHERMAN OR A SCHOONER. IT'S A PLACE IN NOVA SCOTIA. IT IS FAMOUS FOR A FEW THINGS: ONE, IT CONTINUED TO USE WIND-POWERED BOATS, LONG AFTER OTHER OPTIONS WERE AVAILABLE; TWO, IT IS WELL KNOWN FOR A PARTICULAR CURE OF FISH; THREE, IT HAS BEEN A WINNER IN A SCHOONER COMPETITION. NONE OF THIS IS IN THIS ENTRY.)

Ghost nets are gillnets that were once attached to buoys to keep them a float, sometimes the nets detach and then they become death traps called "ghost nets." Gillnets catch all forms of marine life big enough to get their heads into the intentionally sized holes of a gillnet or anything that happens to trapped underneath, making it an extremely efficient way for catching fish, they are weighted to float just above the seafloor. Even after becoming a ghost net, they stil continue to catch fish, until weighed down by dead bodies; until the bodies are cannibalized by their brethren, releasing the murderous net from the depths to start killing again. Advances in gill net technology, the switch from hemp to nylon and later nylon to micro-filament, have made them nearly invisible and non-biodegradable, making the modern ghost an incredible killing machine, thanks to these advances it's reign of terror can go on for a full five years, killing thousands of marine animals including cod. (THIS IS VERY GOOD AND WOULD GET A 2 OR MAYBE A 3. IT'S TOO LONG AND THERE IS TOO MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT GILLNETING. IT NEEDS TO BE SUMMARIZED. NOTICE HOW MUCH EASIER IT IS TO READ WITH THESE CHANGES: Ghost nets are gillnets that were once attached to buoys to keep them a float. Sometimes the nets detach and then they become death traps called "ghost nets." Even after becoming a ghost net, they still continue to catch fish. Advances in gill net technology, have made them nearly invisible and non-biodegradable, making the modern ghost an incredible killing machine. Thanks to these advances it can go on for a full five years, killing thousands of marine animals including cod.


Dorymen are fishermen who fish on a small boat called dory. The dorymen usually have to sail by rowing with oars From the seventeenth century to the 1930s, people fished cod in dories. Many dorymen fished under poor and dangerous conditions even leading to death many times because the boat was so small and unstable against strong winds. (THIS IS ALSO A VERY GOOD ONE -- BETWEEN A 2 AND A 3. I'D LIKE TO SEE IT MADE CLEAR THAT THESE FISHERMEN ARE PART OF THE CREW OF A LARGER SHIP AND THAT, THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, THEY HAVE USED VARIOUS TYPES OF FISHING TECHNIQUES AS THOSE TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED.)

We also looked at how to get books from WSUlibraries (www.wsulibs.wsu.edu >> click on "search online catalog") and how to find books in Google (using the BOOKS feature).

REMEMBER: THERE IS A TEST ON FRIDAY. GET HERE EARLY!