Name/Title
Giammarinaro, PasqualeEntry/Object ID
OH00055Scope and Content
Tuna Fishing.
Mr. Pasquale give his story through the perspective of a fisherman. Mr. Pasquale come from Italian immigrant heritage. He discussed his father's old ways of fishing. Mr. Pasquale mentions his father sailed on the Star of India to Alaska to fish. He remembers swimming in the bay as a boy and diving off the old abandoned Star of India into the water. He left Roosevelt high school in order to follow his dream and become a fisherman. Mr. Pasquale describes half ring fishing, jigging and chumming. He gives an excellent description of the technique behind pole fishing. He also discusses the frustration of the change of ownership of fishing boats to corporate owned fishing boats. Mr. Pasquale describes the frustrating predicament of having to wait months before being able to unload fish to canneries, as canneries began giving foreign fish purchasing priority over local fish. Mr. Pasquale gives an excellent account of live as a fisherman in San Diego.Collection
Oral History CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
Oral History, Tuna Fishing