SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE

RESTORING SALMON TO THE TYNE

By Peter Gray and Michael Charleston

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2011 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Pp298. B/w photographs, charts and graphs. Black boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

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"This is a book which tells a story of salmon conservation success against all odds. It details the pioneering hatchery work of Peter Gray at Kielder and his great achievements in dramatically improving the stocks of salmon on the Tyne - to the extent that it is now, once again, a world class salmon river." (Publisher's blurb).

"My main motive is to offer hope to the host of people on both sides of the North Atlantic who desperately want to restore the fortunes of their depleted salmon rivers. Those who have seen the way the Tyne came back from the dead already want to follow its example but there are many others who should be told how it was done." (Peter Gray).

Contents include:-

Preface by Professor Geoff Parker; Introduction;

PART 1: A LIFETIME'S APPRENTICESHIP - The salmon and its new problems; The life cycle of the salmon; The amazing ability of a hatchery to help a river; A river flows through me; The hatchery bailiff's life - 1960s' style; Building a hatchery is just the start; Now hatch your eggs; Planting out eyed-ova; My big breakthrough; Disasters nobody should repeat;

PART II: KIELDER - THE HATCHERY THAT RESTORED THE TYNE - My move to Kielder; Getting the new hatchery up and running; The days when commonsense could provide solutions; Genetic integrity - and me; The perils of infertility, fish farms and changing scientific fashions; My innovations; Choosing a hatchery site and my advice on stocking; Salmon, brown trout and sea trout - the difference;

PART III: THE KIELDER REPORT - The report that imagines the Tyne recovered naturally; Why the report is so wrong; The report's findings must be disproved; A little detective work reveals the truth; The sea trout myth debunked; The report's other mistakes;

PART IV: NORTH AMERICA - The problems facing North America; The USA has suffered the most; Canada's problems; My visit and my advice;

PART V: THE FUTURE - We should put salmon management back into local hands;

APPENDICES - A: Calculations in full of the numbers of wild and hatchery-related fish; B: Approximate requirements of different sized hatcheries; C: Acronyms and abbreviations; Index to places.