|
Oceanography
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Bluebacks and Silver Brights: A Lifetime in the BC Fisheries from Bounty to Plunder by Norman Safarik Publisher Comments More than a history of the Vancouver fishing industry, this collection of adventures set on the Pacific Ocean also serves as a compelling memoir. With dozens of salty tales of hardworking and hard-living fishermen and fish-industry workers, this is the... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest, Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Andy Lamb Publisher Comments Written by a marine biologist and illustrated in colour by a prizewinning underwater photographer, Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest identifies each fish by its common name and is illustrated with full-colour photographs and labelled sketches... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Reef Fish Identification Tropical Pacific by Gerald Allen Publisher Comments The highly anticipated fish identification book to the tropical pacific waters. With more than 2500 photographs this groundbreaking work by 4 of the best underwater photographers in the world is the most comprehensive field guide on reef fish of the... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $45.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Marine Biology #13: Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, Second Edition by Jeffrey C. Carrier Publisher Comments Virtually every area of research associated with sharks and their relatives has been strongly impacted by the revolutionary growth in technology. The questions we can now ask are very different than those reported even two decades ago. Modern... (read more) Your price: $114.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish by James Prosek Publisher Comments They spawn in the middle of the ocean but spend their adult lives in freshwater. They can overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and even cross over land. They are revered as guardians and monster-seducers by New Zealand’s Maori, yet are often... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis by Jim Lichatowich Publisher Comments "Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin Publisher Comments A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Tuna: Love, Death, and Mercury by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments Famed marine researcher and illustrator Richard Ellis brings us a work of scientific achievement that will forever change the way we think about fish, fishing, and the dangers inherent in the seafood we eat. The bluefin tuna is one of the world's biggest,... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Salmon, Trout & Charr of the World: A Fisherman's Natural History by Rupert Watson Publisher Comments An encyclopedic study which leaves no gaps, is of great interst, and will come to be an essential book of reference. --Country... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Trout: An Illustrated History by James Prosek Publisher Comments Having developed a passion for fishing as a boy, James Prosek searched in vain for a book that catalogued the trout he had come to treasure. Then he began painting them himself, inspired by John James Audubon's classic bird portraits. This is the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes: North America (Peterson Field Guides) by Roger Tory (edt) Peterson Publisher Comments More than 600 species are described in detail, with more than 525 illustrations. This is the guide for quick, reliable identification of fishes that you'll encounter while fishing, snorkeling, diving, or even strolling along a Pacific Coast beach.... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World by Anders Halverson Publisher Comments 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 remote waters of... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Ecology and Management of Atlantic Salmon by Derek Mills Synopsis The author discusses the effects of afforestation, pollution, acid rain, water abstraction and changing agricultural methods on the salmon. He also examines the impact of salmon farming on wild stocks and considers the increasing threat of over... (read more) Your price: $199.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Salmon (Reaktion Books - Animal) by Peter Coates Publisher Comments Every year, wild salmon travel hundreds of miles upstream. They fight fierce river currents, leap over rocks and small waterfalls, and die by the thousands of starvation, disease, and exposure to cold. Even if they surmount these obstacles, the fish risk... (read more) Your price: $18.75 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Reef Aquarium Fishes: 500+ Essential-To-Know Species (Pocketexpert Guide) by Scott W. Michael Publisher Comments Brilliant photography by the world's best underwater photographers and leading international aquarists highlights detailed profiles of more than 600 species of reef aquarium fishes in this new title in the Microcosm/T.F.H. Professional Series. Organized... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg Publisher Comments "A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." -Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review. Writer and life-long fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Shark: In Peril in the Sea by David Owen Publisher Comments Dispeling myths about shark attacks and offering facts about shark conservation and the history of shark-human interaction, this guide comprehensively overturns negative and damaging perceptions of sharks Thoroughly researched and written in clear,... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin Publisher Comments A thrilling guided tour through the world of sharks and their relationship with human communities around the globe. From Belize to South Africa, from Shanghai to Bimini, we see that sharks are still the object of an obsession that may eventually lead to... (read more) Available July 24, 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Harvesting the Bay: Fathers, Sons and the Last of the Wild Shellfishermen by Ray Huling Publisher Comments “If we mean to change our ways, how will we do it? How will we make our food and our system of food production healthy, sustainable, and secure? How will we make them, in a word, sane? Who will do this work?” Ray Huling knows the hard... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
