Running Silver Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations

Name: Running Silver Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations
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ISBN: 9780762780594

ISBN-10: 0762780592

ISBN-13: 9780762780594

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Authors: John Waldman

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That one could “walk drishod on the backs” of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of awe-inspiring numbers of spawners pushing their way upriver, the waters “running silver,” to complete life cycles that once replenished marine fisheries along the Eastern Seaboard. Over the centuries these stocks were so stressed that virtually all are now severely depressed, with many extinct and some simply forgotten. Running Silver is an important and fascinating look at the fish whose history, life-cycles and conservation challenges are so poorly…

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List price: $34.95
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

John Waldman is author of Heartbeats in the Muck (1-55821-720-7) and The Dance of the Flying Gurnards (1-58574-368-2) and writes for the New York Times, The Underwater Naturalist, and The Fisherman. He is a senior scientist with the Hudson River Foundation for Science and Research.



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Preface: Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry?


Prologue: Dammed-Nation



Running Silver and Ghost Fishes



Diadromy 101: Swimming the Great Migratory Circuit



The Seasonal Parade



On the Nature of Rivers



A Shad's Journey, circa 1600



On Natural Abundances: Remembering Not to Forget



Spearfish Moon



Providence and Plenitude



Floating Caskets and the Pennsylvania Navy



Billions of Fish in Hot Water



Precautionary Principle vs. Principally Not Cautious



Concrete Crimes against Rivers



Climate Change: Latitudes and Attitudes



Migration and the Exotic Species Gauntlet



Giants of the Rivers: Gone Forever?



Peering into the Black Box



Hatchery Stocking: Subtraction by Addition



Dam Removal: Fish vs. Ignorance and Inertia



Fish Passage, or Not



A Shad's Journey, circa 2013



Favorable Currents, Fortunate Confluences



Toward a New Stewardship


Epilogue: Keep a Stiff Fin


Acknowledgments


Endnotes