King of Fish - Book

Traces the human impact on salmon over the last 1,000 years and examines the implications for recovery of salmon stocks as well as threatened species world wide. Concludes with provocative recommendations for natural resource use.

Geologist David R. Montgomery's King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon follows the same story in three places. It starts with the salmon's decline in the United Kingdom, moves on to New England, and ends in the Pacific Northwest, showing how overfishing and changes to rivers wore down salmon runs.

Montgomery looks at what repeated itself in each region and closes with recommendations for rethinking how environmental decisions are made. It is a good read for anglers, river advocates and anyone following salmon recovery on the West Coast.