FISHING FOR TROUT AND SALMON. By Terence Horsley

FISHING FOR TROUT AND SALMON. By Terence Horsley

A RIVER NEVER SLEEPS. By Roderick Haig-Brown. 1948 First UK edition.

A RIVER NEVER SLEEPS. By Roderick Haig-Brown. 1948 First UK edition.

THE SALMON. By J.W. Jones, D.Sc., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Liverpool.

1959 1st edition. Small 8vo (145 x 205mm). Ppxvi,192. B/w photographs, ills, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt.

but also to film, in a specially constructed tank - a study which it has taken him eight years to complete. On the subject of homing he is led to the remarkable conclusion that salmon are guided back to the river of their birth by the distinctive smell of its waters." Chapters include: The king of fish; Young salmon in the river; Scales and scale-reading; The salmon in the sea; The homing instinct and the return to the river; The salmon in the river - the spawning of adults; The salmon in the river - the spawning of the male parr; The return to the sea; The salmon river. Appendices cover: specific characteristics and hybrids; a key to the genera of Salmonidae and the species of Oncorhynhus; some parasites and diseases of salmon; two methods of estimating lengths from scales. New Naturalist No. 16.
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Author Jones (John William).
Book Code 61414
ISBN B0007KDW1C.
Book Description Ex-library usual faults and stamps, marks to boards, slight browning. Reading copy, lacks dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1959
Publisher Collins.
Place New Naturalist Monograph.