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"Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Who hears the fishes when they cry?' Maybe we need to go down to the river bank and try to listen."
In what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon.
During his research Kurlansky traveled widely and observed salmon and those who both pursue and protect them in the Pacific and the Atlantic, in Ireland, Norway, Iceland, Japan, and even the robust but not as frequently visited Kamchatka Peninsula. This world tour reveals an eras-long history of man's misdirected attempts to manipulate salmon and its environments for his own benefit and gain, whether for entertainment or to harvest food.
In addition, Kurlansky's research shows that all over the world these fish, uniquely connected to both marine and terrestrial ecology as well as fresh and salt water, are a natural barometer for the health of the planet. He documents that for centuries man's greatest assaults on nature, from overfishing to dams, from hatcheries to fish farms, from industrial pollution to the ravages of climate change, are evidenced in the sensitive life cycle of salmon.
With stunning historical and contemporary photographs and illustrations throughout, Kurlansky's insightful conclusion is that the only way to save salmon is to save the planet and, at the same time, the only way to save the planet is to save the mighty, heroic salmon.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: A Tale of Two Fisheries
PART ONE: The Hero
CHAPTER ONE: A Family Matter
CHAPTER TWO: A Hero's Life
PART TWO: A Human Problem
CHAPTER THREE: The Original Salmon
CHAPTER FOUR: Old Ways in the New Land
CHAPTER FIVE: A Golden Fish Arrives in the EastC
CHAPTER SIX: When It Was Working
CHAPTER SEVEN: The White Man Comes
CHAPTER EIGHT: Nowhere to Run
PART THREE: The Problem With Solutions
CHAPTER NINE: Why Not Make More?
CHAPTER TEN: Sea Cattle
CHAPTER ELEVE: The Release
PART FOUR: The Dangerous Future
CHAPTER TWELVE: Elegy for the Atlantic
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Dismantling of Myths
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Ballad of the Pacific
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Golden Fish Departs
EPILOGUE :It Concerns Us
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
