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Cargando... King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmonpor David R. Montgomery
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Once I began reading this book, I realized that I did not like how the illustrations included only blue, green, and yellow throughout. In addition, most of the scenes from the book were of the bottom of the ocean, but they were dull and not very creative or detailed. The story starts with the King of the fish who has a fishhook stuck in his nose. He demands all the other fish to get it off and the Old Sea Raven keeps crying “theeyesofahare!” This part of the book foreshadowed to the hare that would enter the story as a main character later in the story. The Sea turtle then says, “Old Sea Raven means that only the eyes of a hare can cure you. I have to swim to the land to lay my eggs, and I have seen hares there.” The turtle convinces the rabbit to come with him to the sea, by fooling him, saying, that there are “whole fields of sea lettuce sway with the waves. Sea carrots are there for picking.” Her, we see one of the main ideas of the story, deception. Once the turtle and the hare arrived at the King’s throne, the hare claimed to the king that he “ left his sharpest eyes in a box by his bedside.” And was only wearing his “farseeing eyes to enjoy the view.” I thought this part of the book was funny because although I thought the hare had been oblivious to the trick that the turtle played on him, the hare ended up tricking the entire school of fish, the King, and the turtle. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rivers and mountains of that region, geologist David Montgomery has learned to see the evolution and near-extinction of the salmon as a story of changing landscapes. Montgomery shows how a succession of historical experiences -first in the United Kingdom, then in New England, and now in the Pacific Northwest -repeat a disheartening story in which overfishing and sweeping changes to rivers and seas render the world inhospitable to salmon. In King of Fish , Montgomery traces the human impacts on salmon over the last thousand years and examines the implications both for salmon recovery efforts and for the more general problem of human impacts on the natural world. What does it say for the long-term prospects of the world's many endangered species if one of the most prosperous regions of the richest country on earth cannot accommodate its icon species? All too aware of the possible bleak outcome for the salmon, King of Fish concludes with provocative recommendations for reinventing the ways in which we make environmental decisions about land, water, and fish. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Montgomery starts the book with an overview of salmon and their lifecycle, and the importance of rivers to the life of salmon and the importance of salmon to the health of forests. He then looks at the history of Atlantic salmon, first in Britain and then on the east coast of North America, and how they were driven to the brink of extinction by human greed, despite the understanding that over-fishing the salmon and destroying their rivers was the cause of their extinction. The exact same historical process is playing out in the Pacific Northwest, even though we ought to know better.
Ultimately, Montgomery argues that better management of our rivers is the key to restoring salmon populations, and he provides some concrete ideas for how to do this. Not that anyone will actually listen to these ideas.
Overall, this is a fascinating look at the life cycle of salmon and the interaction between salmon and the landscape. The history chapters didn't need to be nearly as long as they are to make the point that humans are greedy and bad at working for long-term gains when there are short-term gains to be had instead. ( )