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The President's Salmon. Restoring the King of Fish and its Home Waters.
Catherine Schmitt
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Description for The President's Salmon. Restoring the King of Fish and its Home Waters.
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: RNKH; WNCS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
Every spring, for thousands of years, the rivers that empty into the North Atlantic Ocean turn silver with migrating fish. Among the crowded schools once swam the King of Fish, the Atlantic salmon. From New York to Labrador, from Russia to Portugal, sea-bright salmon defied current, tide, and gravity, driven inland by instinct and memory to the very streams where they themselves emerged from gravel nests years before. The salmon pools and rivers of Maine achieved legendary status among anglers and since 1912, it was tradition that the first salmon caught in the Penobscot River each spring was presented as ... Read more
Every spring, for thousands of years, the rivers that empty into the North Atlantic Ocean turn silver with migrating fish. Among the crowded schools once swam the King of Fish, the Atlantic salmon. From New York to Labrador, from Russia to Portugal, sea-bright salmon defied current, tide, and gravity, driven inland by instinct and memory to the very streams where they themselves emerged from gravel nests years before. The salmon pools and rivers of Maine achieved legendary status among anglers and since 1912, it was tradition that the first salmon caught in the Penobscot River each spring was presented as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781608934089
SKU
V9781608934089
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99-15
About Catherine Schmitt
Catherine Schmitt is an environmental scientist who has conducted water-quality research in Maine and done work in the red maple swamps of the Connecticut River Valley. She is communications coordinator for Maine Sea Gran and conveys research findings and information about ocean and coastal issues to both public and commercial audiences. A frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, she lives ... Read more
Reviews for The President's Salmon. Restoring the King of Fish and its Home Waters.
The Penobscot Salmon Club, comprised of Maine recreational fishers, presented the U.S. president with the first Atlantic salmon caught each spring from 1912 to 1992. Schmitt ties the annual presentation to an account of the health of the Penobscot River salmon fishery from abundance to decline and then revival in the 1990s. Battles among conservation and environmental interests and large ... Read more