Original price was: £25.00.£22.50Current price is: £22.50.
A history of fish and fisheries of the River Thames by David J Solomon
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A history of fish and fisheries of the River Thames by David J Solomon
Published by Fluvial Books (www.fluvialbooks.co.uk) IFM Special Members Price 10% £22.50 incl P&P (usual price £25+P&P) Please note this offer is only available to active IFM Members. A new book has been published describing the fascinating history of fish in the Thames, and the development of fisheries to catch them both for food and sport. It is lavishly illustrated with old engravings, maps and photographs, and contains a wealth of anecdotes and stories that will delight the angler, natural historian, historian and fishery professional alike. The author is both a lifelong angler and a fishery scientist, and he draws on his long experience in these fields for the background and material for this book. Interesting stories include:-- the numbers and price of each species of local freshwater fish used to feed Thomas Cranmer, former Archbishop of Canterbury, in the days leading up to his execution in Oxford in 1556 (pike were the most expensive);
- the long history of attempts to re-introduce salmon to the river (it held good numbers until the early 19th century);
- a thriving fishery for roach at London Bridge in the 18thcentury, and the interesting methods used to catch them;
- huge catches of barbel in Victorian times, made by groundbaiting with thousands of worms;
- the decline of the fishery for eels using traps and weirs
- the man with a lifetime catch of more than 800 Thames trout over 3 lb (including several of more than 10 lb).
Original price was: £150.00.£100.00Current price is: £100.00.
Eels Biology, Monitoring, Management, Culture and Exploitation: Proceedings of the First International Eel Science Symposium
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Eels Biology, Monitoring, Management, Culture and Exploitation: Proceedings of the First International Eel Science Symposium
The freshwater eels, the Anguillids, have increasingly become the focus of attention for fisheries managers, scientists, researchers, policy makers, conservation bodies and other stakeholders. These species can be seen as a bellwether for issues affecting aquatic ecosystems – their steep decline and the management initiatives to try and reverse this trend, touch on subjects as diverse as disconnected waterways, loss of habitat, novel parasites, pollution, over-fishing and climate change. There are some 16 species of the Anguilla genus and all exhibit similar lifestyles, growing in waters often far-removed from their marine spawning grounds. These enigmatic, contradictory and confounding species share similar challenges and pressures wherever they are found.
This book was generated from the 1st UK International Eel Science Symposium which was held at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in June 2017. Hosted by the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM), the ZSL, and the Environment Agency (EA), the Symposium was heralded as a success, with over 180 delegates in attendance. Many of the world’s top eel specialists attended or gave presentations across a diverse range of subjects.
This was one of the Symposium’s, and now the book’s great strengths – its diversity of subjects and authors. Many countries are represented within the book, from across Europe and as far afield as New Zealand, South Africa, Vanuatu, French Polynesia, Japan, Canada and the USA.
The EA and IFM have collaborated to produce this landmark book which includes a mix of cultural, scientific and management information which will be invaluable to anyone with a professional or personal interest in these mysterious fish, including ichthyologists, fisheries scientists and managers, aquaculture personnel, environmental biologists and ecologists, marine and freshwater biologists, vertebrate zoologists, animal behaviourists and students studying in all these areas. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where these subjects are studied and taught should have copies on their shelves.
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International Fish Screening Techniques
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