Through the Fish's Eye

Through the Fish's Eye
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 265
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781510701090
ISBN-13 : 1510701095
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Through the Fish's Eye by : Mark Sosin

There are many questions that fishermen ask themselves. Why do certain lures appeal to certain types of fish? How does the physical make-up of a type of fish affect its hunting strategy? Do fish learn to avoid lures and hooks? In Through the Fish’s Eye, these questions, and much more are answered. A classic book written by some of the best names in the business, Through the Fish’s Eye offers a new perspective on the art of fishing by breaking down the behavior of the fish and tying it into their biological make-up. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Fish's Eye

The Fish's Eye
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 182
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374706333
ISBN-13 : 0374706336
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fish's Eye by : Ian Frazier

In The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier "A Great Storyteller" (Newsweek), and one of the "American Originals" (Washington Post Book World) explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him-in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good bait for catfish is half a White Castle french fry. The incidentals of the angling experience, the who and the where of it, interest him as much as what he catches and how. The essays (including the famous profile of master angler Jim Deren, late proprietor of New York's tackle store, the Angler's Roost) contain sharply focused observations of the American outdoors, a place filled with human alterations and detritus that somehow remains defiantly unruined. Frazier's simple love of the sport lifts him to straight -ahead angling description that are among the best contemporary writing on the subject. The Fish's Eye brings together twenty years of heartfelt, funny, and vivid essays on a timeless pursuit where so many mysteries, both human and natural, coincide.

Fish Eyes

Fish Eyes
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 66
Release :
ISBN-10 : 015216281X
ISBN-13 : 9780152162818
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis Fish Eyes by : Lois Ehlert

A counting book depicting the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself.

Eye of the Shoal

Eye of the Shoal
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781472936837
ISBN-13 : 1472936833
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Eye of the Shoal by : Helen Scales

'Scales's genuine appreciation and awe for fish are contagious.'- Science 'Delightful' - New Scientist Seventy per cent of the earth's surface is covered by water. This vast aquatic realm is inhabited by a multitude of strange creatures and reigning supreme among them are the fish. There are giants that live for centuries and thumb-sized tiddlers that survive only weeks; they can be pancake-flat or inflatable balloons; they can shout with colours or hide in plain sight, cheat and dance, remember and say sorry; some rarely budge while others travel the globe restlessly. And yet the mesmerising and complex lives of fish remain largely underrated and unseen, living hidden beneath the waterline, out of sight and out of mind. Helen Scales is our guide on an underwater journey, as we fathom the depths and watch these animals going about the glorious business of being fish. As well as the fish, we meet devoted fishwatchers past and present, from voodoo zombie potion hunters and scientists who taught fish how to walk to nonagenarian explorers of the deep sea. Woven throughout are vignettes of Helen's own aquatic explorations, from eerie nighttime dives with glowing fish and up-close encounters with giant manta rays, to floating in the middle of a swirling shoal being watched by thousands of inquisitive eyes. As well as being a rich and entertaining read, this book will inspire readers to think again about these animals and the seas they inhabit, and to go out and appreciate the wonders of fish, whether through the glass walls of an aquarium or, better still, by gazing into the fishes' wild world and swimming through it. 'Engaging and informative' The Economist

Do Fish Feel Pain?

Do Fish Feel Pain?
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780191613968
ISBN-13 : 0191613967
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Do Fish Feel Pain? by : Victoria Braithwaite

While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different. In many people's perception, fish, with their lack of facial expressions or recognisable communication, are not seen to count when it comes to welfare. Angling is a major sport, and fishing a big industry. Millions of fish are caught on barbed hooks, or left to die by suffocation on the decks of fishing boats. Here, biologist Victoria Braithwaite explores the question of fish pain and fish suffering, explaining what we now understand about fish behaviour, and examining the related ethical questions about how we should treat these animals. She asks why the question of pain in fish has not been raised earlier, indicating our prejudices and assumptions; and argues that the latest and growing scientific evidence would suggest that we should widen to fish the protection currently given to birds and mammals.

The Visual System of Fish

The Visual System of Fish
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 531
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789400904118
ISBN-13 : 9400904118
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Visual System of Fish by : Ron Douglas

A question often asked of those of us who work in the seemingly esoteric field of fish vision is, why? To some of us the answer seems obvious - how many other visual scientists get to dive in a tropical lagoon in the name of science and then are able to eat their subjects for dinner? However, there are better, or at least scientifically more acceptable, reasons for working on the visual system of fish. First, in terms of numbers, fish are by far the most important of all vertebrate classes, probably accounting for over half (c. 22 000 species) of all recognized vertebrate species (Nelson, 1984). Furthermore, many of these are of commercial importance. Secondly, if one of the research aims is to understand the human visual system, animals such as fish can tell us a great deal, since in many ways their visual systems, and specifically their eyes, are similar to our own. This is fortunate, since there are several techniques, such as intracellular retinal recording, which are vital to our understanding of the visual process, that cannot be performed routinely on primates. The cold blooded fish, on the other hand, is an ideal subject for such studies and much of what we know about, for example, the fundamentals of information processing in the retina is based on work carried out on fish (e. g. Svaetichin, 1953).

Hooray for Fish!

Hooray for Fish!
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 36
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780763693527
ISBN-13 : 0763693529
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Hooray for Fish! by : Lucy Cousins

Little Fish has all sorts of fishy friends in his underwater home, but loves one of them most of all.

The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 559
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781468482614
ISBN-13 : 1468482610
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes by : Tony J. Pitcher

This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful, taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are weH over 22000 living species of teleosts, including nearly all those of importance in com mercial fisheries and aquaculture. Teleosts are represented injust about every conceivable aquatic environment from temporary desert pools to the deep ocean, from soda lakes to sub-zero Antarctic waters. Behaviour is the primary interface between these effective survival machines and their environment: behavioural plasticity is one of the keys to their success. The study of animal behaviour has undergone revolutionary changes in the past decade under the dual impact of behavioural ecology and sociobiology. The modern body of theory provides quantitatively testable and experi mentaHy accessible hypotheses. Much current work in animal behaviour has concentrated on birds and mammals, animals with ostensibly more complex structure, physiology and behavioural capacity, but there is a growing body of information about the behaviour of fishes. There is now increasing awareness that the same ecological and evolutionary rules govern teleost fish, and that their behaviour is not just a simplified version of that seen in birds and mammals. The details of fish behaviour intimately reflect unique and efficient adaptations to their three-dimensional aquatic environment.

Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-eye

Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-eye
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Publisher : East Asian Buddhist Philosophy
Total Pages : 214
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9004437908
ISBN-13 : 9789004437906
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-eye by : Eyal Aviv

"In Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-Eye, Eyal Aviv offers an account of Ouyang Jingwu (1871-1943), a leading intellectual who revived the Buddhist scholastic movement during the early Republican period in China. Ouyang believed that authentic Indian Buddhism was an alternative to the prevalent Chinese Buddhist doctrines of his time. Aviv shows how Ouyang's rhetoric of authenticity won the movement well-known admirers but also influential critics. This debate shaped modern intellectual history in China and has lost none of its relevancy today"--

Your Inner Fish

Your Inner Fish
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 258
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307377166
ISBN-13 : 0307377164
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Your Inner Fish by : Neil Shubin

The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.