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Subtitle: a global history of fly fishing and conservation
By: edited by Samuel Snyder, Bryon Borgelt, and Elizabeth Tobey ; with a foreword by Jen Corrinne Brown and epilogue by Chris Wood
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226366579; 9780226366609
Subjects: Fishes; Environmental aspects; Conservation; Fly fishing
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A historical view: wading through the history of angling's evolving ethics / Samuel Snyder; title: Historical perspectives. Trout and fly, work and play, in medieval Europe / Richard C. Hoffmann ; Piscatorial protestants: nineteenth-century angling and the new Christian wilderness ethic / Brent Lane ; The fly fishing engineer: George T. Dunbar, Jr., and the conservation ethic in antebellum America / Greg O'Brien; title: Geographies of sport and concern. Protecting a Northwest icon: fly anglers and their efforts to save wild steelhead / Jack Berryman ; Conserving ecology, tradition, and history: fly fishing and conservation in the Pocono and Catskill Mountains / Matthew Bruen ; From serpents to fly fishers: changing attitudes in blackfeet country toward fish and fishing / Ken Lokensgard ; Thymallus tricolor: the Michigan grayling / Bryon Borgelt; title: Native trout and globalization. "For every tail taken, we shall put ten back": fly fishing and salmonid conservation in Finland / Mikko Saikku ; Trout in South Africa: history, economic value, environmental impacts, and management  / Dean Impson ; Holy trout: New Zealand and South Africa / Malcolm Draper ; A history of angling, fisheries management, and conservation in Japan / Masanori Horiuchi; title: Ethics and practices of conservation. For the health of water, fish, and people: women, angling, and conservation / Gretel van Wieren ; Crying in the wilderness: Roderick Haig-Brown, conservation, and environmental justice / Arn Keeling ; The origin, decline, and resurgence of conservation as a guiding principle in the Federation of Fly Fishers / Rick Williams ; It takes a river: Trout Unlimited and coldwater conservation / John Ross; title: Conclusion. What the future holds: conservation challenges and the future of fly fishing / Jack Williams and Austin Williams; title: Epilogue / Chris Wood, CEO, Trout Unlimited.