Mark Everard, Paul Knight

Gebundenes Buch

Britain's Game Fishes

Celebration and Conservation of Salmonids

Beschreibung

This book explores the importance of fishes of the salmon family for the wellbeing of society. Important as they are for food and recreation, this book shows their importance as 'ambassadors of the wild' - as iconic indicators of the health of the environment.

Autor

Dr Mark Everard has a lifelong obsession with fish, water and the aquatic environment. Author of numerous books, magazine and scientific publications, many of them addressing fish and fishing, Mark is also a regular contributor to TV and radio. He is an adviser to government in the UK, India and South Africa on the sustainable use and management of water and other ecosystems, having also advised and conducted research right across the world. Mark is science adviser to the Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) as well as vice-president of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES), fellow of the Linnean Society, founding director of the Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART), and a life member and former council member of both the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) and the Angling Trust. Mark finds time to fish whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself, but most particularly in rivers accessible from his home in North Wiltshire where he lives with his partner Jackie, daughter Daisy and many tanks of fish.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pelagic Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781907807350
• ISBN-10: 1907807357
• Artikelnr.: 44580407