| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Map; Preface: Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry?; Prologue: Dammed-Nation; 1 Running Silver and Ghost Fishes; 2 Diadromy 101: Swimming the Great Migratory Circuit; 3 The Seasonal Parade; 4 On the Nature of Rivers; Interlude I A Shad's Journey, circa 1600; 5 On Natural Abundances: Remembering Not to Forget; 6 Spearfish Moon; 7 Providence and Plenitude; 8 Floating Caskets and the Pennsylvania Navy; 9 Billions of Fish in Hot Water; 10 Precautionary Principle vs. Principally Not Cautious; 11 Concrete Crimes against Rivers; 12 Climate Change: Latitudes and Attitudes. |
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13 Migration and the Exotic Species Gauntlet14 Giants of the Rivers: Gone Forever?; 15 Peering into the Black Box; 16 Hatchery Stocking: Subtraction by Addition; 17 Dam Removal: Fish vs. Ignorance and Inertia; 18 Fish Passage, or Not; Interlude II A Shad's Journey, circa 2013; 19 Favorable Currents, Fortunate Confluences; 20 Toward a New Stewardship; Epilogue: Keep a Stiff Fin; Acknowledgments; Endnotes. |
| 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 critical marine fisheries along the Eastern Seaboard. This is a hugely important, fascinating, and unique look at the fish of North America whose history and life-cycles and conservation challenges. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284). |
| Subject |
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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Atlantic Coast Region (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
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Environmental degradation. (OCoLC)fst00912877
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Fishes -- Conservation.
(OCoLC)fst00926393
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Fishes -- Ecology.
(OCoLC)fst00926419
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Fishes -- Migration.
(OCoLC)fst00926541
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Migratory fishes. (OCoLC)fst01749203
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Rivers. (OCoLC)fst01098312
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Stream restoration. (OCoLC)fst01134607
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United States -- Atlantic Coast.
(OCoLC)fst01240719
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Artenschutz.
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Fischwanderung.
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Wanderfische.
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Atlantikküste.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waldman, John. Running Silver : Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations. Lanham : Lyons Press, ©2013 9780762780594 |
| ISBN |
9781493001231 (electronic bk.) |
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149300123X (electronic bk.) |
