| description | "In 1983, a young man in his early twenties named Isaburo Tasaka emigrated from Japan boarding a steam powered sailing vessel and landing 24 days later in Portland, Oregon. The fare was 70 yen or less than a dollar at 2004 rates but it was a substantial amount for the average labourer of the time. After working in forestry in Oregon during the winter and fishing in British Columbia in the summer, he came upon the idea of salted salmon he produced out of the Pacific Coast Cannery in Steveston, B.C." --Introduction and Acknowledgment. |