So Fruitful a Fish (Biology and Resource Management Series) - Hardcover

Araujo-Lima, Carlos; Goulding, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231108303 ISBN 13: 9780231108300

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1997

Synopsis

So fruitful a Fish presents the first truly holistic portrait of an Amazonian fish as it exists in its natural habitat and in farming environments. More than just a biology text, the book demonstrates how the tambaqui symbolizes the tight ecological link between rivers and rainforests and the need to conserve floodplain habitats that are now being destroyed by cattle and water buffalo ranching. Its story will be of enermous benefit to ecologists, developers, fishery biologists, aquaculturists, conservationists, and others interested in the dramatic evolutionary complexities of tropical life.

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Review:

Represents a new standard for studying the conservation of neotropical rainforest ecosystems. The tambaqui is exemplary of a tropical rainforest resource that can be managed in the wild. We can also cultivate them for human food. Production of wild stocks depends on fruits and nuts that fall from trees in flooded forests, which give the fish an excellent flavor. Thus, we must pay careful attention to conservation of flooded forests. Only then will we sustain the tremendous economic potential of these fishes. -- Donald J. Stewart State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0231108303
• ISBN 13: 9780231108300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 191