The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the
tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat
captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I
am a woman. I am a fisherman. . . . I am not a fisherwoman,
fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a
thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown."
Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in
the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of
Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's
boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea
Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and
became the focus of Junger's book.The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's
account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles
out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go
right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a
study in narrowly averted disaster. There is the weather, the
constant danger of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling
five sleep-, women-, and booze-deprived young fishermen in close
quarters, not to mention the threat of a bad fishing run: "If we
don't catch fish, we don't get paid, period. In short, there is no
labor union." Greenlaw's straightforward, uncluttered prose
underscores the qualities that make her a good captain, regardless
of gender: fairness, physical and mental endurance, obsessive
attention to detail. But, ultimately, Greenlaw proves that the love
of fishing--in all of its grueling, isolating, suspenseful
glory--is a matter of the heart and blood, not the mind. "I knew
that the ocean had stories to tell me, all I needed to do was
listen." --Svenja Soldovieri
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