PACIFIC SALMON LIFE HISTORIES. Edited by C. Groot and L. Margolis.

(1991) 2003 reprint. Large 4to (210 x 261mm). Ppxvi,564. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations, graphs, tables, maps. Pictorial laminated boards.

" Pacific Salmon Life Histories gives detailed descriptions of the different life phases through which each of the seven species pass. Each chapter is written by a scientist who has spent years studying and observing a particular species of salmon. Some of the topics covered are geographic distribution, transplants, freshwater life, ocean life, development, growth, feeding, diet, migration, and spawning behaviour. The text is richly supplemented by numerous maps, illustrations, colour plates, and tables and there is a detailed general index, as well as a useful geographic index. This volume brings together for the first time, and in a comprehensive form, most of the available biological information on the seven species of Pacific salmon. It is an invaluable source of information for students and teachers of biology and fisheries science, people in the fishing and aquaculture industry, and interested laypersons in countries of the North Pacific and elsewhere". Main contents include:- Life history of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) by Robert L. Burgner; Life history of pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) by William R. Heard; Life history of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) by E.O. Salo; Life history of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) by M.C. Healey; Life history of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) by F.K. Sandercock; Life histories of masu and amago salmon (Oncorhynchus masou and Oncoorhynchus rhodurus) by Fumihiko Kato.