Bluebacks and Silver Brights: A Lifetime in the B.C. Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder

By Allan Šafárik and Norman Šafárik

A captivating memoir set during the pinnacle of West Coast fishing

More than a history of the Vancouver fishing industry, Bluebacks and Silver Brights is a collection of great adventures set on the Pacific coast. With dozens of salty tales of hardworking and hard-living fisherman and fish industry workers, this is Norman Safarik's story of West Coast fishing from the Gulf of Georgia to Prince Rupert, with a detour to New York's old-time fish markets. With wisdom and insight, Safarik's story is also an ecological warning, recalling the lost bounty of Canada's natural resources of a century ago, and their possible extinction today at the hands of government mismanagement and overfishing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770410414
• ISBN13: 9781770410411
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"