| Description |
xvii, 284 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Map -- 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 -- Interlude I: 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 -- Interlude II: A Shad's Journey, circa 2014 -- Favorable Currents, Fortunate Confluences -- Toward a New Stewardship -- Epilogue: Keep a Stiff Fin |
| Summary |
"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 understood. Drawing on the author's thirty-year career as scientist and educator, the book tells the story of the past, present and future of these sea-river fish through research, historical accounts, personal anecdotes, interviews, and images. Running Silver will detail the enormous legacy that has already been lost and try to inspire efforts to save what remains"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) |
| Subject |
Migratory fishes -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
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Migratory fishes -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.) -- History
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Fishes -- Migration -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
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Fishes -- Ecology -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
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Fishes -- Conservation -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
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Environmental degradation -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
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Rivers -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
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Stream restoration -- Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
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| SUBJECT |
Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2013024382 |
| ISBN |
9780762780594 (hardback) |
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0762780592 (hardback) |
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