While we are romanticizing fishing in the afternoon, the BLS reports that in 2003:
Individual occupations with particularly high rates in 2003 included logging workers (131.6 fatalities per 100,000 workers), fishers and related fishing occupations (115 per 100,000),
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm
jks
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Also, fishermen do not all have such a
> happy-go-lucky life. I recently read
> a fascinating book, _Trawler_ by Redmond O"Hanlon,
> about life on a Scots
> fishing boat, the Norlantean K. 508. The
> Norlantean's skipper was so
> encumbered with mortgage payments on his vessel that
> the crew had to work
> around the clock for days on end to keep current
> with debt servicing. Much
> of the story was about the hallucinations that crew
> members typically
> experienced because of sleep deprivation.
> Capitalism has a thousand faces,
> and just about all of them are ugly.
>
> Carl
>
> >From: andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> >
> >This is sanctimonious and insulting. I am glad you
> >have such god ideas about how I should live. Now,
> will
> >you set me up with a Mexican fishing boat and give
> me
> >about 15 years lessons in fishing, plus providing
> >Mexican national health insurance and pensions and
> >state-subsidized educations for my kids? I didn't
> >drift into my line of work. I considered voluntray
> >poverty and its costs. Btw, my wife the
> schoolteacher?
> >Works longer hours than me for a sixth of the pay.
> jks
> >
> >
> >--- martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Bill Stebbins
> > > Subject: Retirement The Hard Way
> > >
> > > A business consultant was at a pier in a small
> > > coastal Mexican village
> > > when a small boat with just one fisherman
> docked.
> > > Inside the small
> > > boat were several large yellow-fin tuna. The
> > > business consultant
> > > complimented the Mexican on the quality of his
> fish
> > > and asked how long
> > > it took to catch them.
> > >
> > > The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."
> > >
> > > The consultant then asked why didn't he stay out
> > > longer and catch more
> > > fish?
> > >
> > > The Mexican said he had enough to support his
> > > family's immediate needs.
> > >
> > > The consultant then asked the Mexican how he
> spent
> > > the rest of his time.
> > >
> > > The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish
> a
> > > little, play with my
> > > children, take siesta with my wife, Maria,
> stroll
> > > into the village each
> > > evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my
> > > amigos. I have a full
> > > and busy life, senor."
> > >
> > > The consultant scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and
> > > could help you. You
> > > should spend more time fishing and, with the
> > > proceeds, buy a bigger
> > > boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat,
> you
> > > could buy several
> > > boats, eventually you would have a fleet of
> fishing
> > > boats. Instead of
> > > selling your catch to a middleman you would sell
> > > directly to the
> > > processor, eventually opening your own cannery.
> You
> > > would control the
> > > product, processing and distribution. You would
> > > need to leave this
> > > small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico
> > > City, then LA and
> > > eventually NYC where you will run your expanding
> > > enterprise."
> > >
> > > The Mexican fisherman asked, "But senor, how
> long
> > > will this all take?"
> > >
> > > The consultant replied, "15-20 years."
> > >
> > > "But what then, senor?" asked the Mexican.
> > >
> > > The consultant laughed, and said, "That's the
> best
> > > part! When the time
> > > is right, you would announce an IPO and sell
> your
> > > company stock to the
> > > public. You'll become very rich, you would make
> > > millions!"
> > >
> > > "Millions, senor?" replied the Mexican. "Then
> what?"
> > >
> > > The consultant said, "Then you would retire.
> Move to
> > > a small coastal
> > > fishing village where you would sleep late, fish
> a
> > > little, play with
> > > your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to
> the
> > > village in the
> > > evenings where you could sip wine and play your
> > > guitar with your
> > > amigos."
> > >
> > > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/bs16
>
>
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