Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations

by John Waldman

That one could walk drishod on the backs of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of awe-inspiring numbers of spawners pushing their way upriver, the waters running silver, to complete life cycles that once replenished critical marine fisheries along the Eastern Seaboard. This is a hugely important, fascinating,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762780592
• ISBN13: 9780762780594
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"