The Quest for Golden Trout

In a highly critical new book that challenges conventional thinking on trout fishing and trout fisheries management, a Connecticut College professor argues that trout hatcheries, river restoration projects and trout habitat enhancements on streams often do more environmental harm than good.

The Quest for the Golden Trout is about looking at our nation's rivers with a more critical eye--and asking more questions about both historic and current practices in fisheries management.

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A Call For Philosophical Shift On Use Of Hatcheries

Jim Lichatowich is a biologist who’s worked on salmon issues as a researcher, manager and scientific advisor for more than 40 years. He sat down with EarthFix’s Ashley Ahearn to talk about his new book: “Salmon, People and Place: A Biologist’s Search For Salmon Recovery.”

Trout of the World Revised and Updated Edition

First released in 2003, Trout of the World features original watercolors of trout from around the world. In the re-released edition fans of Prosek will find 30 new fish paintings and a newly penned preface.

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Bull Trout's Gift

We were wealthy from the water,” Mitch Smallsalmon says, and like all the tribal elders, he speaks to our understanding of the natural world and the consequences of change. In this book the wisdom of the elders is passed on to the young as the story of the Jocko River, the home of the bull trout, unfolds for a group of schoolchildren on a field trip.

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"Bull Trout's Gift," which follows an Arlee fifth-grade classroom on a field trip to the Jocko River, is the illustrated hardcover book.

"Explore the River: Bull Trout, Tribal People and the Jocko River" is the interactive, and intricate, multimedia DVD (which contains, the book as well).

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The female brown trout does, in fact, fake it

It’s a trick she uses to find the most potent mate.

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A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes

Marine science illustrator Val Kells and Professor Ken Carpenter's have collaborated on a new 448-page guide that includes 1,079  full color illustrations and descriptions of over 1,006 marine and brackish water species.

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