Mike Ventimiglia

Author Mike Ventimiglia's family and relatives fished, worked the canneries, and operated and owned fishing boats, as well as a cannery on Cannery Row. He has spent hundreds of hours researching and obtaining photographs in an effort to preserve a small part of the families who worked and fished in Monterey. He has gathered information from the Amici Club, a local organization whose members are of Sicilian Italian descent and who fished with their fathers and grandfathers at the height of the...See more

Author Mike Ventimiglia's family and relatives fished, worked the canneries, and operated and owned fishing boats, as well as a cannery on Cannery Row. He has spent hundreds of hours researching and obtaining photographs in an effort to preserve a small part of the families who worked and fished in Monterey. He has gathered information from the Amici Club, a local organization whose members are of Sicilian Italian descent and who fished with their fathers and grandfathers at the height of the sardine industry. See less