A journey through time while demonstrating why some individuals will always be called to work the sea.

If David Goethel was a cat, he would be in the market for more lives. But David is a small boat fisherman, an endangered species, who works tirelessly for himself and others like him to survive. Follow along on that journey, sea stories and autobiography mixed with twists and turns of science and management as David and his family work relentlessly to feed America sustainable seafood. Fishing is not a job; it is a way of life. David is determined to maintain that life fighting through storm tossed adversity that nature lays out endlessly, and the new sinister efforts of a modern society who live on land and have no concept of how those at sea ensure their own survival as well as the fish on which they depend. Reading Endangered Species will take readers on a journey through time while demonstrating why some individuals will always be called to work the sea.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chapter 1: “Stay With Me”
• Chapter 2: Early Years
• Chapter 3: Death and Taxes
• Chapter 4: Fast Cars and Freedom
• Chapter 5: College Years: Between the Whiskey and the Novocain
• Chapter 6: Bad Habits and Explosive Events
• Chapter 7: Biology Is Easy
• Chapter 8: Politics Not So Much
• Chapter 9: Turn! Turn! Turn!
• Chapter 10: Never a Dull Moment
• Chapter 11: Large Fish
• Chapter 12: A Fish Named Fred and Family Ties
• Chapter 13: One Fish, Two Fish
• Chapter 14: Building a Boat
• Chapter 15: Good Business Relationships
• Chapter 16: Ten Thousand Years Too Late and Baby Duty
• Chapter 17: How to Catch a Fish
• Chapter 18: Annual Meetings
• Chapter 19: An American Original
• Chapter 20: Managers Wear Multiple Hats
• Chapter 21: Frameworks and Amendments, Oh My!
• Chapter 22: Midnight Massacre, the Aftermath
• Chapter 23: Never Order Pancakes
• Chapter 24: If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu
• Chapter 25: Death of an American Original
• Chapter 26: The Fishy Gene
• Chapter 27: Magnuson Reauthorization
• Chapter 28: Treacherous Politics
• Chapter 29: Being Put Back Together
• Chapter 30: Return to Fishing
• Chapter 31: Epic Frustration
• Chapter 32: You Lie for a Living!
• Chapter 33: The Crazy Premium
• Chapter 34: One Last Challenge
• Chapter 35: What Makes the Players Tick?
• Chapter 36: Dictator for Life
• Appendix: US Fisheries Management Structures
• About the Author