The Salmon: The Extraordinary Story of the King of Fish
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Michael Wigan. The Salmon: The Extraordinary Story of the King of Fish
Contents
The Journey
The Culture
No Admission
The Passion
The Pressure
Extinction Vortex
Survive or be Damned
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
Picture Section
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Title Page
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The salmon fishing writer Richard Waddington devoted many pages of his 1947 book Salmon Fishing: A New Philosophy to a laboriously articulated theory that wintering salmon positioned themselves in the mid-Atlantic in order to intercept common eels migrating as elvers or ‘glass eels’ from the Sargasso Sea off eastern central America. Salmon swam with these easterly migrations of juvenile common eels, he surmised, being sustained and fattened by them all the way back to their growing zones in the freshwaters of UK and Europe. It was somehow a beguiling idea.
The author died long ago, but depending on circumstances in his afterlife he may now have the chance to reconsider and chide himself for those errant thought processes. Knowledge is a grand corrective.
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