Proposed OCS Sale No. 68 includes a maximum offering of 218 tracts, with a total area of about 445,190 hectares (1,112,975 acres). The tracts are offshore Southern California, between 3 and 84 geographic miles offishore and in water depths from about 46 to 1500 m deep (150 to 4,900 feet). Tracts comprise three subareas: the Santa Barbara Channel; Inner Banks (containing the Anacapa Island area, Santa Monica Basin and the San Pedro area); Outer Banks (containing the area south of Santa Rosa Island, San Nicolas Basin, Dall Bank, southeast Tanner Bank and Santa Tomas Knoll). There are existing Federal oil and gas leases in each of these three subareas.

Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks. Today, Ernal's son, Captain Ernie Foster, struggles to keep the family business alive in a time of great change on the Banks. Within the engaging saga of the rise and decline of one family's livelihood, Carlson relates the history and transformation of Hatteras Village and the high-adrenaline experience of blue-water sportfishing and the industry that surrounds it. Hatteras Blues is their story--a story of triumph and loss, of sturdy Calvinist values and pell-mell American progress, and of fate and luck as capricious as the weather.

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