An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

by Anders Halverson

Book Overview

An award-winning journalist, aquatic ecologist, and lifelong fisherman tells for the first time the surprising story of the rainbow trout, a revered icon for some and an all-too-common vexation for others

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300140886
• ISBN13: 9780300140880
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"