Two authors from a fisheries report by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game
2mon 28d ago by lemmy.world/u/TheTechnician27 in nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44531633
The 2011 report in question, titled: "Annual Management Report for the Commercial and Subsistence Shellfish Fisheries of the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and the Westward Region’s Shellfish Observer Program, 2009/10"
See I get why people have surnames like fisher and pilch but surnames like herring suggest they dveloped some sort of system where different fishermen had to focus on one particular species. Would suck to be the guy who is assigned 'carp.'
Salmon makes sense because maybe a river or lake fisher would be known by the salmon they sell.
But they did focus on one particular species, when fish were more abundant.
I'm not an expert but Old Joe Herring could perhaps have dibs on a particular herring-hiding shoal, and maybe his nets are knotted in a finer gauge than those made and used by Herbert Cod over by the reef. Whereas Charlie Tuna heads out to the deep and uses a hook and really strong line.
Or maybe Old Joe actually brings in mostly carp, but he LOOKS like a herring.