The sad truth is that good fishing is always private, extremely expensive or a closely guarded secret.

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If you like fishing and good writing, you should check this book out.

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Sounds so special, upstate, fishing and all that good stuff.

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Yet where Mr Pittman was abrasive and relished the limelight, Mr Logan prefers a good book to a Manhattan cocktail party, and fishing for bass over dining at the Four Seasons.

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All of which is very good for the social side of agriculture - boosting employment (in the same way that artisanal fishing provides more jobs than the industrial kind), promoting local ownership of land and, in the poorest countries, mitigating against land-grabs.

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"In five years time if you come back I hope you are going to see better roads, better health facilities, better education facilities and a good living standard for every Ghanaian, " says Joseph Tandoh as he waits for his two fishing boats to return from several days at sea.

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