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A Naturalist Goes Fishing: Casting in Fragile Waters from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand's South Island - Paperback | Diverse Reads

A Naturalist Goes Fishing: Casting in Fragile Waters from the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand's South Island

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In the tradition of fishing classics, A Naturalist Goes Fishing combines elements of the triumph between fisher and fish, humor and wit, and a passionate concern for the natural environment.

James McClintock takes us to some of the most breathtaking waters the world has to offer while capturing the drama and serendipity in the beloved sport of fishing. We follow him and his fishing buddies and professional guides, as he fishes off the marshy barrier islands of Louisiana, teeming with life but also ravaged by recent disasters like the Deepwater Horizon spill. We travel to the remote waters of New Zealand's Stewart Island, where the commercial fishing industry is fast disappearing; fish for gigantic Antarctic toothfish through a drilled ice hole at McMurdo Station; and scout for spotted bass on Alabama's Cahaba River, which has the highest diversity of fresh water fish in North America. As we take this global journey, we see how sea level rise, erosion, pollution, water acidification, and overfishing each cause damage.

This strikingly beautiful narrative is a must read for anglers and nature lovers alike.

ISBN-13: 9781250257932

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Publication Date: 10-27-2015

Pages: 272

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

James McClintock is one of the world's foremost experts on Antarctica, and currently the Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Lost Antarctica. McClintock has appeared on local, national, and international public radio, CNN news, and the Weather Channel. He has been quoted in National Geographic, Discover Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and others. Each year he leads a philanthropic cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula, sponsored by Abercrombie and Kent. McClintock Point , a body of land on the north side of the entrance of Explorer's Cove on the Scott Coast of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, was named in honor of his research.

Table of Contents

Foreward
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Chandeleur Islands: Speckled Sea Trout
Chapter 2 Manitoba: Lake Trout
Chapter 3 The Cahaba River: Spotted Bass
Chapter 4 Gulf of Mexico: Yellowfin Tuna
Chapter 5 Antarctica: Toothfish
Chapter 6 New Zealand: Rainbow Trout
Chapter 7 Bahamas: Bonefish
Chapter 8 Costa Rica: Tarpon
Chapter 9 France: Anchovies
Chapter 10 Fishing for Solutions: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going