Britain's Game Fishes (eBook)

lt;p>Dr Mark Everard has a lifelong obsession with fish, water and the aquatic environment. Author of numerous books, magazine and scientific publications, many of them addressing fish and fishing, Mark is also a regular contributor to TV and radio. He is an adviser to government in the UK, India and South Africa on the sustainable use and management of water and other ecosystems, having also advised and conducted research right across the world. Mark is science adviser to the Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) as well as vice-president of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES), fellow of the Linnean Society, founding director of the Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART), and a life member and former council member of both the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) and the Angling Trust. Mark finds time to fish whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself, but most particularly in rivers accessible from his home in North Wiltshire where he lives with his partner Jackie, daughter Daisy and many tanks of fish.

Paul Knight has been involved with fish for most of his working life, including catching them as a commercial fisherman and angler, growing them as a trout farmer and now trying to conserve them as Chief Executive of the fisheries environmental charity, the Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA). He is a Council member and Fellow of the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM), and spends his time attempting to influence government departments and agencies to follow policies that will protect the aquatic environment and all its dependent species. He writes for various fisheries-related and environmental magazines, and has successfully published a book of angling tales, Amazing Fishing Stories. He lives with his wife, Angela, and son, Archie, in Wiltshire.

Authors’ biographies

Preface

Part 1 The native game fishes of the British Isles

1 A natural history of Britain’s game fishes

2 The Atlantic salmon and its amazing life-cycle

3 Brown trout or sea trout

4 The Arctic charr

5 The grayling

6 The whitefishes

7 Rainbow trout: the familiar alien

8 Realising the value of the British game fishes

Part 2 British game fishes under pressure

9 The making and breaking of the modern world

10 A brief unnatural history of the British game fishes

11 Net results

12 Muddying the waters

13 Down on the farm

14 Salmonids under pressure



Part 3 Game fishes for the future

15 Sea change

16 Changing rules

17 Changing values

18 We the people

19 Game fishes for tomorrow



Bibliography

Index