abstract:Giller is a 19th Century term for a person who fishes using a gillnet, as used in the Chesapeake Bay region from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries.Richard Gerstell: American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin: A Three-hundred-year History, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa.
Since then shehas been widely honoured-winning the Governor General's Award twice more; in her native Canada she has alsowon the prestigiousGillerprizetwice.
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