Fishing Through the Apocalypse
An Angler's Adventures in the 21st Century
by Matthew L. Miller
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Pub Date Mar 01 2019 | Archive Date Mar 08 2019
Rowman & Littlefield | Lyons Press
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Description
Matthew Miller (director of science communications for The Nature Conservancy) explores fishing that might be considered dystopian: joining anglers as they stick their lines into trash-filled urban canals, or visiting farm ponds where you can catch giant, endangered fish for a fee. But it isn’t all bleak. When it comes to fishing, the other part of the story is this: a cadre of anglers is looking to right past wrongs, to return native species, to remove dams, to appreciate the unappreciated fish, to clean our waters and protect public lands.
As an angler and conservationist, Matt removes any and all preconceived notions about what it means to fish in the 21st century in order to see the different visions of the future that exist right here, right now.
Fishing Through the Apocalypse offers one of the widest-ranging looks at fish conservation in the United States, and also includes some of the more unusual adventures ever featured in a fishing book.
Features fishing adventures in:
Idaho
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
Utah
Texas
Florida
Iowa
Minnesota
Illinois
Washington DC
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781493037414 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Not your typical fishing book! Miller explores fishing in places most people have never tried, or even thought of. From catching fish in a garbage filled, toxic drainage ditch to fishing for salmon in Alaska, he tries it all. Golden trout, ciscos, suckers, gars, eels, sturgeon, every species you can imagine. Even exploring a type of fishing that I had never heard of, "microfishing", or fishing for tiny, tiny little minnow like fish.
I think that Miller's point is that, wherever there are fish, people will fish for them. And if it gets too expensive to fish for the well-known "trophy" species, or they become too rare, or places get too crowded, people will find another species. His quote from Chief Sitting Bull summed it up nicely, "When the buffalo are gone, we will hunt mice, for we are hunters and we want our freedom:".
This was a fun read, reminding me that the fun is in the act of fishing, rather than the pursuit of bigger or more fish.