Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London - Books - - 9798643554516 - June 10, 2020
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San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-goingcraft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments. The waters of the bay contain allmanner of fish, wherefore its surface is ploughed by the keels of all manner of fishingboats manned by all manner of fishermen. To protect the fish from this motley floatingpopulation many wise laws have been passed, and there is a fish patrol to see that theselaws are enforced. Exciting times are the lot of the fish patrol: in its history more than onedead patrolman has marked defeat, and more often dead fishermen across their illegalnets have marked success. Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp- catchers. It is thehabit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide ebbs and flows, the Chinese sink great bag-nets to the bottom, with gaping mouths, into which the shrimpcrawls and from which it is transferred to the boiling-po

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 10, 2020
ISBN13 9798643554516
Pages 64
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 3 mm   ·   99 g
Language English  

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