Peter Robson
Works by Peter Robson:
Peter A. Robson has more than twenty-five years of experience in the fields of book and magazine writing, research, editing and production and has authored or contributed to a number of award-winning books on subjects such as commercial fishing, forestry and salmon farming. From ABC BookWorld, "Peter Andrew Robson was a key component in the team that produced the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, overseeing the printing of the book. He previously worked as a freelance writer and photographer; he crewed and skippered boats in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean; and he worked as a tenderman in the BC salmon industry. These experiences led him to jobs as the editor of Westcoast Fisherman and Pacific Yachting. In April of 2006 he was a crewmember/journalist aboard Victoria Clipper in the 30-day, 5,600-mile leg of the Round the World Yacht Race from Qingdao, China to Victoria B.C., making daily postings via satellite to Pacific Yachting's website and to David Black's community newspapers.
Robson has written and edited hundreds of articles on fishing and logging. His books include The Working Forest of British Columbia (Harbour, 1995) and several other titles pertaining to the West Coast, plus a manuscript about the salmon aquaculture industry that Raincoast Books was contracted to publish in 2005. Offering a positive or balanced view of aquaculture in British Columbia, it was released one year later by Heritage House as Salmon Farming: The Whole Story, edited by Mary Schendlinger. It can be read as a response to the award-winning anti-fish farming book from Robson's former employer, A Stain Upon The Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming (Harbour), released two years previously. The Keith Matthews Awards Committee of the Canadian Nautical Research Society awarded Robson's Salmon Farming: The Whole Story an Honorary Mention for Best Book published in 2006 on a Canadian nautical subject or by a Canadian on any nautical subject.
Peter Robson is also the editor of Raincoast Chronicles 23 (Harbour, 2015), a compendium of excerpts from some of the classic West Coast books published Harbour Publishing over a 40-year period. It could described as The Least Boring B.C. Book Ever.
The contributors include Al Purdy, Anne Cameron, Edith Iglauer, Frank White, Patrick Lane and Grant Lawrence. Subjects include sea disasters, bush plane adventures, ghost towns, bizarre characters such as Fred Tibbs of Tofino, confiscation of Japanese fishboats, Triangle Island, Queen Charlotte Airlines, hippies at Sointula, seal hunting, Yuquot (Friendly Cove), cougar hunting and the Read Island murder mystery."