The Life and Times of the Murray Cod

Paul Humphries (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4863-1232-0 (ISBN)

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The Murray cod is Australia's largest and most iconic freshwater fish. Tales of the species have long been part of Australian folklore and this book describes its history, biology, cultural significance and conservation.

The Life and Times of the Murray Cod reveals the many roles the species has played throughout the history of the continent, from its place at the heart of the Aboriginal creation story of the Murray River, its role as a food source for explorers surveying inland Australia in the early 1800s, to it forming the basis of a commercial fishing industry up to the early 2000s.

Living for upwards of half a century and growing to astonishing sizes, today the Murray cod is a hugely popular target for recreational fishing, but its future is anything but assured. In the face of climate change, river management and fishing pressure, much needs to be done to ensure this extraordinary fish swims confidently into the future.

The Life and Times of the Murray Cod draws on historical, anecdotal and scientific sources to reveal what makes this remarkable species so special, and will appeal to fishers, natural resource managers, conservationists and any reader interested in natural history.

Paul Humphries is a river ecologist and academic with 40 years' experience in research in many parts of Australia and overseas. Paul co-edited Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes (CSIRO Publishing) with Keith Walker in 2013. He currently resides in Albury, New South Wales.

Foreword

Cultural sensitivity warning

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the contributors

An introduction to the life and times of the Murray cod

Part I: Origins

1. In the beginning: the origins of the Murray cod

Part II: Biology

2. Next generation: the spawning of Murray cod

3. The young and the restless: the early life of the Murray cod

4. ‘A lazy fish’: diet, habitat and movement of adult Murray cod

5. From little fish big fish grow: age, growth and the biggest Murray cod

Part III: People and Murray cod

6. Murray cod and First Nations people

7. European encounters: colonial explorers and early contact with the Murray cod

8. Fish in abundance: the Murray cod is introduced to Western science

Part IV: Fisheries

9. Land, sheep and fish: settlement and the origins of the Murray cod commercial fishery

Colour plates

10. Gold-fish: the gold rush and the commercial Murray cod fishery

11. ‘A trade of extermination’: overfishing and Aboriginal loss

12. Recreational fishing

Part V: Conservation and the future

13. A fish in troubled waters

14. Past and future conservation of the Murray cod

15. Epilogue

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	21 colour plates, 20 b&w photographs, 14 illustrations, 9 maps
Verlagsort	Melbourne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 245 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-4863-1232-2 / 1486312322
ISBN-13	978-1-4863-1232-0 / 9781486312320
Zustand	Neuware