In the sixteen years since the last edition of Von Brant’s classic work was published, fishing and fisheries have undergone vast changes. Not only has there b

This book grew out of Professor Von Brandt′s lifetime devotion to the study of fishing gears and catching methods from prehistoric times to the present. In it

The Northwest Coast people devised ingenious ways of catching the different species of fish, creating a technology vastly different from that of today’s indus

In developing countries, traditional fishermen are important food contributors, yet technological information and development assistance to third-world nations