Fish Watching: An Outdoor Guide to Freshwater Fishes

by C. Lavett Smith

Overview

Who hasn't stopped along the banks of a stream to look for fish? Anyone who wants to enjoy fish in their own world will want this lavishly illustrated guide to a new kind of nature study. An expert whose passionate interest in fish is contagious, C. Lavett Smith is promoting a whole new outdoor pastime—fish watching.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801480843
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	06/15/1994
Series:	Comstock Book
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

What People are Saying About This

Bruce A. Thompson

Provides a wealth of information on eastern North American freshwater fishes as would be expected from someone whose ichthyological legacy includes E. Raney, R. Suttkus, and R. Bailey.

Kevin Cook

Until C. Lavett Smith published Fish Watching, good fish books were as scarce as unicorns.... An emeritus curator of herpetology and ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, Smith crafted Fish Watching as a book about fishes. Not about catching them. Not about keeping them. Not about cooking them. Just about them.... The result is a most pleasant and surprising work of natural history writing devoted solely to fishes. The surprise is how successfully Smith keeps Fish Watching simple.... For feeling good about loving fishes just for what they are, I'll read Fish Watching.

John A. Baker

This book should delight anyone who is interested in the natural world, and should help fish watching take its rightful place alongside the better known pursuits of amateur naturalists.

Editorial Reviews

"Provides a wealth of information on eastern North American freshwater fishes as would be expected from someone whose ichthyological legacy includes E. Raney, R. Suttkus, and R. Bailey."

--Bruce A. Thompson, Coastal Fisheries Institute, Center for Coastal, Energy, and Environmental Resources, Louisiana State University, Copeia, 1996, No. 1

"This book should delight anyone who is interested in the natural world, and should help fish watching take its rightful place alongside the better known pursuits of amateur naturalists."

--John A. Baker, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 70

"Until C. Lavett Smith published Fish Watching, good fish books were as scarce as unicorns.... An emeritus curator of herpetology and ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, Smith crafted Fish Watching as a book about fishes. Not about catching them. Not about keeping them. Not about cooking them. Just about them.... The result is a most pleasant and surprising work of natural history writing devoted solely to fishes. The surprise is how successfully Smith keeps Fish Watching simple.... For feeling good about loving fishes just for what they are, I'll read Fish Watching."

--Kevin Cook, The Coloradoan, August 1, 2004

From the Publisher

"Until C. Lavett Smith published Fish Watching, good fish books were as scarce as unicorns.... An emeritus curator of herpetology and ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, Smith crafted Fish Watching as a book about fishes. Not about catching them. Not about keeping them. Not about cooking them. Just about them.... The result is a most pleasant and surprising work of natural history writing devoted solely to fishes. The surprise is how successfully Smith keeps Fish Watching simple.... For feeling good about loving fishes just for what they are, I'll read Fish Watching."

Kevin Cook

"This book should delight anyone who is interested in the natural world, and should help fish watching take its rightful place alongside the better known pursuits of amateur naturalists."

John A. Baker

"Provides a wealth of information on eastern North American freshwater fishes as would be expected from someone whose ichthyological legacy includes E. Raney, R. Suttkus, and R. Bailey."

Bruce A. Thompson

Designed to be used in the field, this guide describes major types of freshwater habitats and the fish to be found in each. Information on habitat selection, food and feeding habits, defense adaptations and reproductive mechanisms of fish is supplemented by b&w drawings and 36 color photos. Two appendices discuss fish classification and scientific names. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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