THE SALMON: THEIR FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. By Anthony Netboy.
1974 1st edition. Large 8vo (157 x 234mm). Ppxxii,613. B/w photographs, end-paper maps, bibliography. Decorative buckram, upper board and spine titled in gilt.
A comprehsive monograph on the ecology and exploitation of salmon - Atlantic and Pacific. Chapters include: Evolution and distribution of the salmon; Life history and migrations; Primitive man and the Atlantic salmon; Salmon in Great Britain; Salmon in Ireland; Iberian and French salmon; Demise of the Meuse and rhine Rivers; Norwegian successes and setbacks; Baltic and Arctic salmon; The American experience; The Canadian experience; The Greenland fishery - final catastrophe?; Discovery of the Pacific salmon; The destruction of California and its salmon; The dammed Columbia and its salmon - two chapters; Death and revival of the Willamette River; Oregon's coastal streams; Breakthrough in salmon culture; The Puget Sound fishery; Vicissitudes of the British Columbia fisheries; Indians and salmon in British Columbia; Vicissitudes of the Alaska salmon fisheries; Asian salmon resource; Russia's salmon wealth and its exploitation; Salmon farming in Japan; Sport fishing for salmon and steelhead trout; Salmon - our earliest gourment food; Man and the salmon - a problem in co-existence.
A comprehsive monograph on the ecology and exploitation of salmon - Atlantic and Pacific. Chapters include: Evolution and distribution of the salmon; Life history and migrations; Primitive man and the Atlantic salmon; Salmon in Great Britain; Salmon in Ireland; Iberian and French salmon; Demise of the Meuse and rhine Rivers; Norwegian successes and setbacks; Baltic and Arctic salmon; The American experience; The Canadian experience; The Greenland fishery - final catastrophe?; Discovery of the Pacific salmon; The destruction of California and its salmon; The dammed Columbia and its salmon - two chapters; Death and revival of the Willamette River; Oregon's coastal streams; Breakthrough in salmon culture; The Puget Sound fishery; Vicissitudes of the British Columbia fisheries; Indians and salmon in British Columbia; Vicissitudes of the Alaska salmon fisheries; Asian salmon resource; Russia's salmon wealth and its exploitation; Salmon farming in Japan; Sport fishing for salmon and steelhead trout; Salmon - our earliest gourment food; Man and the salmon - a problem in co-existence.
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Book Code
2827
Author | Netboy (Anthony). |
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Book Code | 2827 |
ISBN | 0395140137 / 0395140137. |
Book Description | Minor faults. Good-plus in slightly used dust-wrapper. Sage green boards, gilt titles to dark green printed label to upper board and spine. |
Book Cover | Hardcover |
Published Date | 1974 |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin. |
Place | Boston. |