An Entirely Synthetic Fish
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An Entirely Synthetic Fish

How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

Anders Halverson

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An Entirely Synthetic Fish

How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

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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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780300166866
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Marine Biology
Index
Biological Sciences
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A 
Less 
Bold 
and 
Spirited 
Nation
I
n 
the 
year 
1872, 
Lee’s 
surrender 
at 
Appomattox 
and 
Lincoln’s 
assassination 
were 
still 
fresh 
in 
the 
memory 
of 
most 
Americans. 
There 
were 
only 
about 
40 
million 
people 
in 
the 
United 
States, 
about 
as 
many 
as 
there 
are 
just 
in 
California 
today, 
and 
women 
were 
allowed 
to 
vote 
only 
in 
the 
states 
of 
Wyoming 
and 
Utah. 
Telephones 
and 
light 
bulbs 
were 
still 
in 
the 
future, 
horses 
and 
carriages 
still 
crowded 
the 
streets 
of 
America’s 
great 
cities, 
and 
President 
Ulysses 
S. 
Grant 
was 
ghting 
a 
bitter 
reelection 
campaign 
against 
publishing 
magnate 
Horace 
Greeley. 
A 
thirty-
three-year-old 
of 
modest 
origins 
named 
John 
D. 
Rockefeller 
had 
just 
seized 
control 
of 
most 
of 
the 
oil 
reneries 
in 
Ohio, 
the 
re-
ning 
capital 
of 
the 
country. 
And 
the 
completion 
of 
the 
trans-
continental 
railroad 
three 
years 
earlier 
meant 
that, 
for 
the 
rst 
time, 
Americans 
could 
travel 
from 
New 
York 
to 
San 
Francisco 
without 
sailing 
around 
the 
tip 
of 
South 
America, 
hazarding 
the 
crossing 
of 
the 
Isthmus 
of 
Panama, 
or 
undertaking 
an 
arduous 
and 
risky 
wagon 
trip 
across 
the 
mostly 
uncharted 
plains 
and 
great 
mountain 
ranges 
of 
the 
West.

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