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by Anders Halverson

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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 remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artificially propagated and distributed for more than 130 years by government officials eager to present Americans with an opportunity to get back to nature by going fishing. Proudly dubbed "an entirely synthetic fish" by fisheries managers, the rainbow trout has been introduced into every state and province in the United States and Canada and to every continent except Antarctica, often with devastating effects on the native fauna. Halverson examines the paradoxes and reveals a range of characters, from nineteenth-century boosters who believed rainbows could be the saviors of democracy to twenty-first-century biologists who now seek to eradicate them from waters around the globe. Ultimately, the story of the rainbow trout is the story of our relationship with the natural world--how it has changed and how it startlingly has not.

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  • Title An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
  • Author Anders Halverson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 58085th
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Publication date 2011-06-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780300140880 / 0300140886
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Animals
  • Library of Congress subjects Introduced fishes - United States, Rainbow trout
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009036200
  • Dewey Decimal Code 639.375

About the author

Anders Halverson is a journalist with a Ph.D. in aquatic ecology from Yale University. He lives in Boulder, CO.
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