Name/Title
Cary, HaroldEntry/Object ID
OH00026Scope and Content
Tuna Industry.
This oral history interview is a valuable resource for historians. This interview is given from a corporate, business prospective. Mr. Cary first worked in the tuna industry, for the Campbell ship yard. He later took the San Diego accounting exam and became an accountant without a college degree during the depression. He was then offered a management position of a failing ship yard known as Lynch ship building corporation, and he was able to keep the business from going under during WWII.
At Lynch shipbuilders, he oversaw the production of Navy and tuna boats. In 1948 he began working for the American Tuna Association. In 1959 he became an assistant to the president of Van de Kamp. When Purina bought Van de Kamp, Mr. Cary became the vice president of planning and project development during the expansion period of the tuna industry overseas in west Africa and Palau. Mr. Cary has a valuable prospective of the rise and decline of the tuna industry. He first lived in San Diego during the depression and is able to describe the tuna industry from the 1930s until the decline of the industry. He describes the struggle with the 'dolphin safe tuna' controversy from a corporate perspective.Collection
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Search Terms
Oral History, Tuna Industry