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Silver swimmer / Richard Buck.

Title
Silver swimmer / Richard Buck.
Author
Buck, Richard, 1909-
Publication
New York : Lyons & Burford, c1993.

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xvi, 416 p. ; ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Silver Swimmer is the dramatic chronicle of the monumental struggle to conserve and restore the great Atlantic salmon during the last half of the twentieth century. It is written by the person who led the campaigns and who has been called (by Marshall Field) the man who "knows more about Atlantic salmon from a conservation point of view than anyone alive today.""--BOOK JACKET. "Silver Swimmer vividly describes the life cycle of this great game fish, its overexploitation by the Danes and Norwegians by drift netting on the high seas, and then the delicate, difficult efforts - led by the United States through international diplomacy - to face the threat of "The Salmon War." Buck - in what becomes the first historical narrative of these events - describes the founding of the Committee on the Atlantic Salmon Emergency (CASE), its successor, Restoration of the Atlantic Salmon in America (RASA), the development of the seminal high-seas treaty salmon aquaculture (and its environmental significance), and the future of the wild salmon."--BOOK JACKET. "This is a fascinating, pathbreaking book, sure to be of major interest to all conservationists and sportsmen."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Atlantic salmon
  • Atlantic salmon fisheries > North Atlantic Ocean > History
  • Fishes > History. > North Atlantic Ocean
  • North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization > History
  • Restoration of Atlantic Salmon in America, Inc. > History
  • Salmo salar
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 404) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Ted Williams -- Pt. I. A Special Creature. 1. Restoration -- Genesis. 2. The Life Cycle -- Pt. II. Overexploitation: 1962-1969. 3. Storm Clouds. 4. The Greenland Escalation. 5. The ICNAF Convention -- Pt. III. The Salmon War. 6. The Committee on the Atlantic Salmon Emergency. 7. Enlisting Public Support. 8. Engaging Denmark. 9. Mission to Copenhagen. 10. Embargo Legislation -- The Pelly Amendment. 11. Private-Sector Involvement. 12. Reaching Agreement. 13. The Fate of the Salmon Hangs in the Balance. 14. Reflections on the Salmon War -- Pt. IV. Chaos in the North Atlantic. 15. RASA -- Successor to CASE. 16. Denmark Violates the ICNAF Agreement. 17. Breaking New Boundaries. 18. The Law of the Sea. 19. River Harvest -- Pt. V. Inventing the Salmon Treaty. 20. Towards a Salmon Convention. 21. Getting Down to Business. 22. The Canadian Recalcitrance. 23. The RASA Coup and The Final Diplomatic Conference. 24. Ratification of the Treaty -- Pt. VI. NASCO 1984-1986. 25. Early Progress. 26. The Mounting Crisis. 27. Buy-Outs. 28. Fishing for Salmon on the High Seas. 29. The Turning Point. 30. NASCO Stumbles. 31. Where Have the Salmon Gone? 32. A Judgment on NASCO -- Pt. VII. The Aquaculture of Salmon. 33. Salmon Farming. 34. Interactions -- Cultured and Wild Salmon -- Pt. VIII. Wild Salmon -- The Future. 35. Leadership by Example. 36. Atlantic Salmon in the Global Environment.
ISBN
1558212515
LCCN
^^^93041438^
OCLC
29256528
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library