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American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin : a three-hundred-year history / Richard Gerstell.
LIBRA SH351.S5 G47 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerstell, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shad fisheries--Susquehanna River Watershed.
- Shad fisheries.
- American shad--Susquehanna River Watershed.
- American shad.
- Shad fishing--Susquehanna River Watershed.
- Shad fishing.
- Fishes--Conservation--Susquehanna River Watershed.
- Fishes.
- Fishes--Conservation.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- x, 217, [5] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1998]
- Contents:
- 1. Early Highlights
- 2. Types of Shad-Fishing in the Susquehanna
- 3. Types of Shad Fisheries
- 4. Fishing Gear and Fishermen
- 5. Susquehanna Fishways and the Stocking of Dam Pools
- 6. Shad-Fishing Along the Susquehanna
- 7. Fishery Financial Records
- 8. Government Fishery Management Activities
- 9. The Susquehanna River Shad Catch
- 10. Shad Marketing and Associated Problems
- 11. Shad for the Table
- 12. The Beginning of the Shad Restoration Program
- 13. Rebuilding the Shad Population
- 14. Reopening the River for Shad
- 15. The Years Ahead.
- Notes:
- "A Keystone book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-207) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 0271018054
- 0271018062
- OCLC:
- 39216728
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