The Salmon: The Extraordinary Story of the King of Fish

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

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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

About the Publisher

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To Robert Pointon and Hugh Ardagh, my two teachers at Sussex Tutors in Brighton, England, who taught me how to appreciate literature and write clean English. I hope I have not let them down. Neither, as far as I know, had any interest in fish. The desire to communicate precedes having anything useful to say, as anyone in the pub before closing knows.

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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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