Fish category: 1105 books
Beckoned by the Sea
Women at Work on the Cascadia Coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
A rich and diverse tapestry weaving together the many voices, narratives, skills, and talents of women up and down the coastal Pacific Northwest who devote their lives and careers to the sea.
Beckoned by the Sea celebrates coastal women from northern BC to northern California who work on or...
by David E. Boruchowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This expert guide provides up-to-date information on keeping goldfish healthy in home aquariums. It covers a wide range of common issues with goldfish care, and contains identifying photos for many of the most popular and easily obtained goldfish species. Useful tip boxes in each chapter show every member of the household how to make the most out of owning a pet.
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Do you like fishes, especially Koi fishes? I do! I love to watch these colourful fishes swim around my pond endlessly. No matter how stress I am, end of the day, my stress will all go away.
However, it takes skills and knowledge to keep these Koi happy, and healthy. It's not as simple as keeping...
Before We Leave You
Messages from the Great Whales and the Dolphin Beings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
What if whales and dolphins truly do have a superior intellect, as many believe, and can speak to the human race? What would their message be? In November 2008, gifted clairvoyant Patricia Cori was in Jordan teaching a workshop when a life-changing event occurred. A community of Cetaceans—“a choir...
The Secret Life of Clams
The Mysteries and Magic of Our Favorite Shellfish
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Lovers of science—or seafood—will be happy as a clam with this unique and enlightening history.
It breathes with tubes, it has no head or brain, it feeds through a filter, and it is the source of dozens of familiar proverbs and expressions. Clams, it turns out, have been worshipped (by...
The Tragedy of the Commodity
Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association
Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and...
The Lobster Coast
Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
“A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald
“[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA Today
For more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have...
Planning for Coastal Resilience
Best Practices for Calamitous Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and magnitude of coastal storms around the globe, and the anticipated rise of sea levels will have enormous impact on fragile and vulnerable coastal regions. In the U.S., more than 50% of the population inhabits coastal areas. In Planning for Coastal...
How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach
A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-sand beaches to southwestern shell beaches, taking a fresh look at the ever-changing landscape. With Tonya Clayton as your guide, you'll learn how to recognize...
by Eric Noel Muñoz
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Rarely have global battles in the war on invasive species been successful. Even tougher is fighting a mutant genetic clone of a natural counterpart on a marine coast. The first known Western Hemisphere detection of the invasive seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia occurred in Southern California, at San Diego...
Towards Principled Oceans Governance
Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations.
This key book focuses...
Once and Future Ocean
Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Peter Neill's The Once and Future Ocean aspires to do nothing less than transform our relationship with the world's most promising and imperiled natural element: the ocean and the inter-connected cycles of water, essential for all aspects of human survival in the 21st century. A successor to the...
Voyage of the Iceberg
The Story of the Iceberg that Sank the Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This is the story of the most famous iceberg of all time--the iceberg that has gripped the imagination of the world, that humbled human technology and dramatized the wonders and dangers of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Author Richard Brown uses the iceberg's story to present the natural history...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes....