num_pages: 240
description: The salmon is said to be as old as time and to know all the past and future. Twenty-two thousand years ago someone carved a life-sized image of Atlantic salmon in the floor of a cave in southern France. Salmon were painted on rocks in Norway and Sweden. The salmons effortless leaping and ability to survive in both river and sea led the Celts to mythologize the salmon as holder of all mysterious knowledge gained by consuming the nine hazelnuts of wisdom that fell into the Well of Segais. The President's Salmon presents a rich cultural and biological history of the Atlantic salmon and the salmon fishery primarily revolving around the Penobscot River the last bastion for the salmon in America and a key location for the preservation of the species.
language: English
title: The President's Salmon: Restoring the King of Fish and its Home Waters
publisher: Down East books