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Running silver : restoring Atlantic rivers and their great fish migrations /

"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 upr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waldman, John R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Migratory fishes > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
Migratory fishes > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.) > History.
Fishes > Migration > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
Fishes > Ecology > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
Fishes > Conservation > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
Environmental degradation > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
Rivers > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
Stream restoration > Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.)
Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.) > Environmental conditions.
NATURE / Animals / Fish.
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / Marine Biology.
Table of 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.