Voices of the West Coast

Interviewee Sort descending	Collection	Description	Interviewer	Date of Interview	Location of Interview	Affiliation
Mary Misetich	Tuna Pioneers: San Pedro-Terminal Island, California	Mary Misetich was born in 1912 in Washington. Her family later moved to San Pedro, where she lived for 90 years. In 1932, she married Dominick Misetich, a tuna fisherman. Both of their families came from the island of Brac, Yugoslavia.	Unknown	Fri, 01/18/2013 - 12:00	San Pedro, CA	Aquarium on the Pacific, NOAA Fisheries - West Coast Region, Voices of the West Coast
Mary Schreiber	The Lives of Fishermen's Wives, Mothers, and Daughters - Oregon	Interview with Mary Schreiber	Sarah Calhoun	Fri, 07/25/2014 - 12:00	Garibaldi, OR	Voices of the West Coast, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-NMFS
Michele Longo Eder	The Lives of Fishermen's Wives, Mothers, and Daughters - Oregon	Interview with Michele Longo Eder.	Sarah Calhoun	Sat, 07/26/2014 - 12:00	Newport, OR	Voices of the West Coast, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-NMFS
Michelle Cottrell	The Lives of Fishermen's Wives, Mothers, and Daughters - Oregon	Interview with Michelle Cottrell	Sarah Calhoun	Tue, 07/08/2014 - 12:00	Newport, OR	Voices of the West Coast, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-NMFS
Nancy Fitzpatrick	The Lives of Fishermen's Wives, Mothers, and Daughters - Oregon	Interview with Nancy Fitzpatrick	Sarah Calhoun	Mon, 12/08/2014 - 12:00	Newport, OR	Voices of the West Coast, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-NMFS
Nick Danelovich	Tuna Pioneers: San Pedro-Terminal Island, California	Nick was born in Hvar, Croatia, in 1914, and his family moved to Oregon when he was young. He started salmon fishing at a young age in Astoria, and then went with his brothers to fish in Alaska when he was a bit older, and that is where he first became a cook for a fishing crew. He moved to San Pedro, California, at the invitation of a friend and became the cook for many years on a tuna boats owned and operated by Captain Frank Gargas, Sr.	Unknown	Thu, 11/22/2012 - 12:00	San Pedro, CA	Aquarium on the Pacific, NOAA Fisheries - West Coast Region, Voices of the West Coast
Richard Chikami	Tuna Pioneers: San Pedro-Terminal Island, California	Richard was born in San Pedro in 1946; a third generation Japanese-American (sansei). In this interview, he recounts how his family came to be living in San Pedro from Japan, and the challenges they faced because of "yellow exclusion laws" and other discriminatory practices that prevented his grandparents from becoming U.S. citizens. His grandfather settled initially in a Japanese fishing community near Santa Monica, California where he ran a fish market. However, he was not legally allowed to hold a business license until 1954 when he was allowed to become a U.S. citizen.	Unknown	Thu, 11/22/2012 - 12:00	San Pedro, CA	Aquarium on the Pacific, NOAA Fisheries - West Coast Region, Voices of the West Coast
Sara Skamsar	The Lives of Fishermen's Wives, Mothers, and Daughters - Oregon	Interview with Sara Skamsar.	Sarah Calhoun	Mon, 12/08/2014 - 12:00	Newport, OR	Voices of the West Coast, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-NMFS
Steve Gargas	Tuna Pioneers: San Pedro-Terminal Island, California	Captain Frank Gargas, Sr., and his two sons, Frank Jr. and Steve, reflect on their experience as a fishing family. Frank Sr. relays a time when the family was with him on the tuna boat and they encountered rough weather from Hurricane Camille (1969). Steve talks about his mother and what she faced as a wife of a fisherman, having her husband at sea much of the time. Frank Jr. reflects on what drew him to become a fisherman.	Unknown	Thu, 11/22/2012 - 12:00	San Pedro, CA	Aquarium on the Pacific, NOAA Fisheries - West Coast Region, Voices of the West Coast
Teresa Freeman	The Lives of Fishermen's Wives, Mothers, and Daughters - Oregon	Interview with Teresa Freeman.	Sarah Calhoun	Tue, 09/23/2014 - 12:00	Garibaldi, OR	Voices of the West Coast, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-NMFS

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