Author: George Brown GoodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States and the Work of the U.S. Fish Commission
Author: George Brown GoodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States and the Work of the U. S. Fish Commission (Classic Reprint)
Author: G. Brown GoodePublisher:
ISBN: 9781332531080
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Excerpt from A Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States and the Work of the U. S. Fish Commission The first American colony, planted at Jamestown in 1609, owed its permanence chiefly to the abundance of fish and oysters in the adjacent rivers. Its founder, Captain John Smith, was the pioneer of the American fisheries, and in his writings devotes many pages to the discussion of the methods by which they should be carried on. He was a practical fisherman, for his vessel in 1614 took 47,000 fish off the coast of Maine. He realised thoroughly the value of his spoils. "And is it not pretty sport," wrote he, "to haul up two pence, six pence, and twelve pence as fast as you can hale and veare a line? He is a very bad fisher cannot kill in one day with his hooke and line, one, two or three hundred cods." The colonists whom he planted on the shores of the Chesapeake have handed his precepts faithfully down to their descendants, who are to-day hauling pence up out of the water faster than their forefathers ever learned to do. The fisheries of the Chesapeake region yielded in 1880 a product valued at nearly eight and one-half million dollars. The Massachusetts colonies were founded with still more special reference to the fisheries. We are told in Winslow's "Briefe Narrative of the True Grounds and Causes of the First Planting of New England," that when the Puritans sent agents from Leyden to King James to gain his consent to their going to America, the King at once asked "what profit might arise." They answered in a single word, "Fishing." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States and the Work of the U. S. Fish Commission
Author: George Brown GoodePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781340718985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
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The President's Salmon
Author: Catherine SchmittPublisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608934101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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 a token to the President of the United States. The last salmon presented was in 1992, to George W. Bush.That year, the Penobscot counted more than 70 percent of the salmon returns on the entire Eastern seaboard, yet that was only 2 percent of the river's historic populations. Due to commercial over harvesting, damming, and environmental degradation of the fish's home waters, Atlantic salmon populations had been decimated. The salmon is said to be as old as time and to know all the past and future. Twenty-two thousand years ago, someone carved a life-sized image of Atlantic salmon in the floor of a cave in southern France. Salmon were painted on rocks in Norway and Sweden. The salmon’s effortless leaping and ability to survive in both river and sea led the Celts to mythologize the salmon as holder of all mysterious knowledge, gained by consuming the nine hazelnuts of wisdom that fell into the Well of Segais. The President's Salmon presents a rich cultural and biological history of the Atlantic salmon and the salmon fishery, primarily revolving around the Penobscot River, the last bastion for the salmon in America and a key battleground site for the preservation of the species.
Special Scientific Report
Author: Catalogue of the Collections of Fishes Exhibited by the United States National Museum
Author: Tarleton Hoffman BeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Marine Fisheries Review
Author: Spiny Lobster Explorations in the Pacific and Caribbean Waters of the Republic of Panama
Author: Johnny A. ButlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Case of the Green Turtle
Author: Alison RieserPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421405792
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The author discusses the way science and conservation interact by focusing on the most controversial aspect of green turtle conservation: farming. She also examines how the efforts to preserve sea turtles changed marine conservation and the way we view our role in the environment.
Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description