Fish Cars and Fish Culture: Railroads and Sport Fishing in America

Fish Cars and Fish Culture explores the intersection between the development of railroads and fish culture during the last half of the 1800s. R. W. Hafer traces how the growth in the railroad industry, both in terms of its technology and its geographic reach, assisted the newly formed U.S. Fish Commission in its attempt to restore the nation’s rapidly declining fish populations. Because of railroads, the Commission was able to transplant millions of fish, often into non-native waters, acros...