Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives In the Fishing Industry
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This is the authors fifth book, it is a delightful and inspiring story of New Zealand women, many of whom call themselves "just ordinary".
How very far from ordinary they and their lives actually are becomes plain from the beginning. Courage, strength of character, humour - here are so many touching stories.
They range from hand-on fishing and diving to the many skills needed in aspects of management, research and policing the seas in New Zealand waters and around the world.
New Zealand was the first country to introduce an all embracing quota management scheme, and is up with the leading fishing countries in the places women have won for themselves in the fishing industry.
Everyone wants to conserve fish stocks. Heather Heberley opens up a whole new world of science and enterprise, threaded through with love stories and the seizing of triumph from disaster.
With her fishing and farming family on Arapawa Island in Tory Channel, she has herself gone fishing for crayfish, groper, school shark and tuna, and taken part in fisheries research.
All four of her previous books have been bestsellers - Weather Permitting, Flood Tide, Riding with Whales, Last of the Whalers.
In this book, she celebrates a vital part of the natural world, and women who belong in it.
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