The Secret Life of Salmon

About this book

The life story of Atlantic, Chum, Sockeye, King, Silver and Pink salmon, has gripped the human consciousness since the dawn of time. This book brings in viewpoints from science, recreational fishing, and aquaculture.

The Secret Life of Salmon takes in the start of a salmon’s life cycle with gravel-covered eggs hatching in a specific river pool. We follow the salmon's epic journey through icy and wild northern waters to its conclusion in an upland stream.

The book also talks about conservation success stories: the 21st-century buy-out of drift nets in British and Irish waters; the application of ranching in the vast waters of the Alaskan-Pacific; the groundbreaking smolt tracking methods using cutting-edge science applied to famous but threatened salmon populations from New Brunswick streams to Moray Firth rivers and out to sea.

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Biography

Henry Giles caught his first salmon on Scotland's River Conon in 1981. Schooled at Christ's Hospital, he read medieval history at university and has sub-edited and written on newspapers from the Sunday Express to the Evening Standard and country and fieldsports magazines, where he worked for six years on Trout and Salmon. His fishing writing has in the last two years been published in the Flyfishers' Journal; Trout & Salmon and Waterlog. Henry lives in Cambridgeshire with Chloe and Pippa, 10, Yorkshire terrier Lucky and two horses. He blogs about fishing in Scotland, Norway and New Brunswick where he fishes most years.