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Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Vertebrates > Fishes (ichthyology)
Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled
California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food
resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the
years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning
habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer than 300. River
pollution has also hit hard at fish populations, which within
recent decades have diminished by 80 percent. One species, the San
Joaquin River spring chinook, became extinct soon after World War
II. Other species are nearly extinct. This volume documents the
reasons for the decline; it also offers practical suggestions about
how the decline might be reversed. The California salmon story is
presented here in human perspective: its broad historical,
economic, cultural, and political facets, as well as the
biological, are all treated. No comparable work has ever been
published, although some of the material has been available for
half a century. In the richly varied contributions in this volume,
the reader meets Indians whose history is tied to the history of
the salmon and steelhead upon which they depend; commercial
trollers who see their livelihood and unique lifestyle vanishing;
biologists and fishery managers alarmed at the loss of river water
habitable by fish and at the effects of hatcheries on native gene
pools. Women who fish, conservation-minded citizens, foresters,
economists, outdoor writers, engineers, politicians, city youth
restoring streambeds-all are represented. Their lives-and the lives
of all Californians-are affected in myriad ways by the fate of
California's salmon and steelhead. This title is part of UC Press's
Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1991.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1984.
Aquaculture exemplifies the ongoing global struggle to strike a
sustainable balance between the conflicting needs of a rapidly
increasing world population, human health, ecosystem health, the
welfare of wild and domesticated animals, and the economic
principles of globalized economies. On the one hand, aquaculture
has great potential for providing us with a healthy and nutritious
food supply whilst alleviating pressure on captive fisheries and
reducing fisheries-induced habitat destruction, overfishing,
genetic modification of wild populations, and wholesale waste of
bycatch. On the other hand, aquaculture relies heavily on clean
water, an increasingly precious (and dwindling) resource that is
subject to intense pressure of being used for many competing
objectives. This concise primer introduces students to the basic
concepts, opportunities, and challenges of aquaculture with an
emphasis on ecological considerations. It provides a critical
assessment of current aquaculture practices from a broad,
interdisciplinary perspective and from the standpoint of how best
to align the two major (and often conflicting) goals of future
aquaculture development: minimizing reliance on ecosystem services
whilst maximizing productivity. A Primer of Ecological Aquaculture
provides an accessible and authoritative overview for a wide range
of undergraduate majors ranging from biology, engineering, and
environmental policy to business and management. It will also
appeal to a more general academic audience who wish to gain a
current overview of the field.
The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began
publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for
Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize
and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered
published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the
layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than
compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable
and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic
community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the
series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to
those in many walks of life-to those casually ... interested ...,
to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the
amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books
remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and
marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from
Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references
for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as
significant working tools for students of the sea.
The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began
publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for
Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize
and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered
published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the
layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than
compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable
and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic
community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the
series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to
those in many walks of life-to those casually ... interested ...,
to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the
amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books
remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and
marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from
Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references
for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as
significant working tools for students of the sea.
The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began
publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for
Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize
and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered
published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the
layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than
compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable
and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic
community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the
series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to
those in many walks of life-to those casually ... interested ...,
to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the
amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books
remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and
marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from
Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references
for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as
significant working tools for students of the sea.
An authoritative guide to the identification, systematics,
distribution, and biology of the thirty-eight species of the Order
Beloniformes in the western North Atlantic Ocean The final volume
in the Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series covers the
Beloniformes, a diverse order of fishes containing six families and
at least two hundred and thirty extant species found worldwide in
marine and freshwater environments. This excellently illustrated,
authoritative book describes the thirty-eight species of beloniform
fishes-needlefishes, sauries, halfbeaks, and flyingfishes-that live
in the western Atlantic Ocean. Compiled from new revisions,
original research, and critical reviews of existing information,
this tenth book in the series completes a major reference work in
taxonomy and ichthyology for both amateurs and professionals, and
all students of the sea. Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum of
Natural History
The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began
publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for
Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize
and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered
published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the
layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than
compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable
and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic
community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the
series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to
those in many walks of life-to those casually ... interested ...,
to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the
amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books
remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and
marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from
Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references
for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as
significant working tools for students of the sea.
The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began
publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for
Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize
and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered
published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the
layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than
compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable
and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic
community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the
series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to
those in many walks of life-to those casually ... interested ...,
to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the
amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books
remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and
marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from
Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references
for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as
significant working tools for students of the sea.
The Klamath River basin, which spans parts of southern Oregon and
northern California, has been the focus of a prominent conflict
over competing uses for water. Management actions to protect
threatened and endangered fish species in the basin have left less
water available for irrigation in dry years and heightened tensions
among farmers and other stakeholders including commercial
fishermen, Native Americans, conservationists, hunters, anglers,
and hydropower producers. This National Research Council book
assesses two recent studies that evaluate various aspects of flows
in the Klamath basin: (1) the Instream Flow Phase II study (IFS),
conducted by Utah State University, and (2) the Natural Flow of the
Upper Klamath Basin study (NFS), conducted by the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation (USBR). The book concludes that both studies offer
important new information but do not provide enough information for
detailed management of flows in the Klamath River, and it offers
many suggestions for improving the studies. The report recommends
that a comprehensive analysis of the many individual studies of the
Klamath river basin be conducted so that a big picture perspective
of the entire basin and research and management needs can emerge.
Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 The Klamath
Basin 3 Formulating and Applying Models in Ecosystem Management 4
Natural Flow Study 5 Instream Flow Study 6 Applying Science to
Management 7 Conclusions and Recommendations References Appendix:
Biographical Information for Committee Members
Ohio's original heavily forested landscape included glacial lakes,
large rivers, and streams that teemed with an abundant variety of
fish, most of which remain resident today. Native Fishes of Ohio
documents the more than 130 species originally found in the state
and describes how their aquatic habitats have evolved as a result
of agriculture and industrial development. Naturalist Dan Rice and
photographer Gary Meszaros draw upon more than 40 years of
fieldwork and recent hands-on experience to detail the natural
history of each species of Ohio fish. The authors provide field
identification characteristics and describe each fish's habitat,
ecology, and distribution. The book is profusely illustrated with
Gary Meszaros's spectacular color photographs of live specimens in
their natural environment, a resource unique to this volume. The
range of shapes and vivid colors will give the reader insight into
the fascinating world of the state's native fishes. An ideal
resource for the non-specialist, Native Fishes of Ohio will
interest nature lovers, teachers, and anglers and is a must for
every Ohio school and public library.
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