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Francis E. Caldwell Caldwell' s new book, Salmon on my Mind, is already a hot seller, and getting rave reviews. (For details, e-mail anchorpub@msn.com.) Thrill with the author as experiences, including the struggle to buy his first boat and learning how to catch giant king salmon on sport gear in Southeast Alaska. It covers the decade after he moved to Alaska in 1950, until he purchased his first large salmon troller, the 43-foot F/V Laverne II. Pacific Troller, in its fourth printing, has became a classic. This covers the author and his family's 14-year period on the F/V Laverne II. Because the two books cover 28 years of Caldwell's life at sea, the books are perfect gifts for anyone who is thrilled by the romantic, carefree life of someone who gave up shore jobs for the freedom of chasing king salmon and albacore on the wild ocean. In a hurry? Add $5.00 S&H charge, or a total of $32.90 and we'll ship Parcel Post. Send check or money order to Anchor Publishing 1335 West 11th. St. Port Angeles,WA 98363. 360-457-3009. E-mail: anchorpub@msn.com Washington State residents include 8.3% sales tax. Read Salmon on my Mind first.

Chicken Soup for the Fisherman's Soul

My Story as Told By Water
By David James Duncan

Steelheaders Reference Guide
The book is a compilation and user friendly format of data gathered from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The book is comprised of five sections. The first is a ranking of the top summer run and winter run rivers for the last 8 years in Oregon and Washington. The second section has charts of the peak catch months for the top 100 rivers in Oregon and Washington. The reader can quickly tell when and where to fish specific rivers by the shaded charts. These charts are backed up by detailed catch data compiled by the Oregon and Washington Departments of Fish & Wildlife as shown in section four. The third section is introduced by a map of the dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers and lists the annual counts over each dam since they were built. This data is further broken down by month for each dam. The fourth section contains monthly catch data for the last eight years in each state. Lastly, the final section lists all of the smolt plants made by Oregon and Washington for eleven years and eight years respectively. order here:

Salmon Without Rivers

From Kirkus
A careful account of the making of an environmental crisis. Few people know the biology of the anadromous salmon as well as Lichatowich, a government fishery scientist who has devoted more than three decades to studying the fish in the Pacific Northwest. Lichatowich offers a brief but thorough natural history of the seven species of Pacific salmon, an ancient creature whose lineage can be traced back more than 400 million years. Those species have met with near-extinction in just the last 150 years, a time coincident with the arrival of Euroamericans into the Northwest and their employment of wide-scale, destructive environmental practices that displaced the long-evolved salmon-based economies of the Northwest's indigenous peoples. Lichatowich points out that what underlies the salmon crisis is not so much an easily identifiable and corrigible single cause as a set of related issues: deforestation, poor stream management, overfishing, and habitat destruction. "Habitat degradation," he writes acutely, "has not simply been a long-overlooked by-product of our industrial economy. It has been the direct result of the large-scale ecosystemic simplification that is a central and guiding vision of that economy." That oversimplification, he argues, has led to the false view that salmon are best grown in hatcheries, like so many hothouse flowers, rather than allowed to flourish in free-flowing rivers, a habitat that itself is increasingly rare, replaced by dams and reservoirs. He examines the long battle to preserve the Northwest's watercourses, noting that as early as 1928 the state of Oregon unsuccessfully proposed that its rivers be deemed fish sanctuaries and protected from commercial development. "We simply cannot have salmon without healthy rivers," he closes by observing-and making those healthy rivers will involve restructuring the economy of an entire region, an unlikely prospect. Environmentalists will find much of value, if little comfort, in Lichatowich's pages.