Bull Trout's Gift

We were wealthy from the water,” Mitch Smallsalmon says, and like all the tribal elders, he speaks to our understanding of the natural world and the consequences of change. In this book the wisdom of the elders is passed on to the young as the story of the Jocko River, the home of the bull trout, unfolds for a group of schoolchildren on a field trip.

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"Bull Trout's Gift," which follows an Arlee fifth-grade classroom on a field trip to the Jocko River, is the illustrated hardcover book.

"Explore the River: Bull Trout, Tribal People and the Jocko River" is the interactive, and intricate, multimedia DVD (which contains, the book as well).

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The female brown trout does, in fact, fake it

It’s a trick she uses to find the most potent mate.

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A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes

Marine science illustrator Val Kells and Professor Ken Carpenter's have collaborated on a new 448-page guide that includes 1,079  full color illustrations and descriptions of over 1,006 marine and brackish water species.

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Salmon Doubts

This graphic novel by Adam Sacks concerns a salmon named Geoff tormented by existential questions: why was he hatched? How can he overcome his shyness around the female salmon with whom he longs to spawn? Who are these self-appointed leaders of the group, and how is it that they have their power? Why must he swim upstream and face his doom? Geoff eventually finds his destiny by breaking away from the pack and heading out toward the open ocean, while his best friend, Henry, is content to continue upstream, spawn with his love-object, Samantha, and die.

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Here we go again

Biologist Victoria Braithwaite explores the question of fish pain and fish suffering, explaining what science can now tell us about fish behavior, and examining the related ethical questions about how we should treat these animals.

She concludes that scientific evidence suggests that we should widen to fish the protection currently given to birds and animals.

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How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States.

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