THE SECRET LIFE OF SALMON. By Henry J. Giles.

2024 1st edition. 4to (180 x 253mm). Pp142. Colour photographs throughout. Black boards, spine titled in silver gilt.

A wide-ranging study of the lives of salmon. "A mirror held up to our warming world - via science, sporting and aquacultural viewpoints. This book takes in the start of a salmon's life cycle with gravel covered eggs hatching in a specific river pool, we hear fascinating secrets with a backdrop of the time-lapsed seasons changing overhead and specified times of year. We follow the salmon's epic journey of quest through icy and wild northern waters to its conclusion in an upland stream. Read about the great success stories of conservation - the 21st-century buy-out of drift-nets in British and Irish waters; the application of ranching in the vast waters of the Alaskan-Pacific. The groundbreaking smolt tracking methods using cutting edge science applied on famous but threatened salmon populations from New Brunswick streams to Moray Firth rivers and out to sea. A sustainable future for these iconic fish? The answer is here including the latest on new technology and significance and legacy of COP 26 in Glasgow, taking in the road to COP 27 and beyond."