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Halverson, Anders

 
9780300140873: An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
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ISBN 10 : 0300140878 ISBN 13 : 9780300140873
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In this title, Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artificially propagated and distributed for more than 130 years by government officials eager to present Americans with an opportunity to get back to nature by going fishing. Proudly dubbed 'an entirely synthetic fish' by fisheries managers, the rainbow trout has been introduced into every state and province in the United States and Canada and to every continent except Antarctica, often with devastating effects on the native fauna. Halverson examines the paradoxes and reveals a range of characters, from nineteenth-century boosters who believed rainbows could be the saviours of democracy to twenty-first-century biologists who now seek to eradicate them from waters around the globe. Ultimately, the story of the rainbow trout is the story of our relationship with the natural world - how it has changed and how it startlingly has not.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anders Halverson is a research associate at the University of Colorado's Center of the American West. He has a Ph.D. in aquatic ecology from Yale University and has received several awards for his journalism. He was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support the research and writing of An Entirely Synthetic Fish. Patricia Nelson Limerick is faculty director and chairwoman of the board of the Center of the American West and author of Desert Passages and The Legacy of Conquest.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300140878
ISBN 13 
9780300140873
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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