Monthly Archive: August 2010

Aug 25

Day 41, Dubrovnik, Croatia

window view

The first full day in Dubrovnik, Croatia. A beautiful Mediterranean place with a lot of history. The hotel room is clean but spartan and basic. It is more than good enough for me – cannot expect anything else as a poor documentary maker. I am not going to spend my days at the hotel room …

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Aug 23

Day39, Washington DC

Going to Dulles International Airport to fly to Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Aug 17

Day 33, a day with salmon fishermen, California

Beautiful weather in San Francisco, sunny and warm. Spent the day at the Fisherman’s Wharf on a fishing boat talking with Larry Collins and his wife about salmon fishing, fishing in general, and the state of affairs here in California with the salmon fishery being closed the last few years. Larry and his wife have …

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Aug 13

Day 29, a day with FWS in The Delta, California

on river

Left early morning to join the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a day on the Sacramento River, California, during one of their frequent trawls in their long-running monitoring of salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The purpose was to experience the monitoring trawl first hand and to go on a quest to see if …

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Aug 07

Day 23, Preparing to go to San Francisco, California

And today I bought a ticket for California to cover the coastal fishing communities there. Have been in contact with Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) and the Small Boat Commercial Salmon Fishermens’ Association (S.B.C.S.F.A.) to meet some salmon fishermen/women in California.

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