Title: A Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and the People of the Pacific Northwest
Publisher: Oregon State Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0870713914
ISBN 13: 9780870713910
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good
Weight: 18 ounces

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Book by Cone, Joseph

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Pacific salmon are born in a river or stream, swim out to the open ocean where they may live for up to six years, and then as adults leap up rivers and waterfalls to return to their natal streams to mate and spawn. The subtle relationship between salmon and their habitats, which makes this migration possible, has been gradually degraded as a result of logging, the construction of dams, and water pollution. Cone, a science journalist and author of Fire Under the Sea (LJ 7/1/91), recounts the battles between ecologists, biologists, and conservation-minded lawyers and the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management over the protection of the dwindling salmon population. Detailed descriptions of coho salmon spawning surveys, a historical account of the 19th-century fur trade, the development of the salmon canning industry, and a discussion of traditional Indian hunting and fishing customs are interspersed with biographical material on several activist scientists. For specialized collections in fisheries, public policy, and local history of the Northwest. (Photos not seen.)-Judith B. Barnett, Pell Marine Science Lib., Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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