THE WILDLIFE SERIES: TROUT. Edited by Judith Stolz and Judith Schnell.

1991 1st edition. Large 4to (221 x 286mm). Ppxiv,370. Colour plates, colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Two-tone green and buff boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

The authoritative reference on North American trout. This book covers all aspects of the biology and ecology of North American trout species and varieties. A terrific book with a great many authoritative contributors. The book is divided into the following sections and chapters; what a trout is - the ancestry of trout, genes, the beauty of trout (meristic characters), inside the trout, senses and atxes; life as a trout - view from an observation tank, spawning and development, food and feeding behaviour (foraging sites, rogue trout, competition), migration, anadromous trout, life and death, trout as prey, pollution's effects; the trout's environs - aquatic conditions (temperature niches, 'warmwater' trout, fluctuating temperatures, faster growth), streams and rivers, tailwaters, lakes, the Great Lakes, oceans and estuaries, weather extremes (anchor ice); the species - Apache trout, Arctic charr, brook trout, brown trout, bull trout, cutthroat trout, Dolly Varden charr, gila trout, golden trout, lake trout, Mexican goden trout, rainbow trout, steelhead (dissolved oxygen, temperature); the future of trout - endangered species, why stock?, why not stock?, stewardship.