Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain

A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year, "Fishing in the Dark" explores the secret, silent world of freshwater fish and the evolution of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams over thousands of years. It also highlights the struggles of the Atlantic salmon, eel, pike, carp, spotted brown trout, and grayling, and calls to protect the underwater world from industrial fishing and farming.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 368 pages
\n Publication date: 04 March 2021
\n Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Peer into the secret, silent world of freshwater fish and explore the evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and streams. This history spans thousands of years, from cunning Neolithic traps, intricate Roman nets, and quarrelsome Victorian societies to the evolution of angling and the eventual gentrification of river access. It ends with a poignant call to protect the underwater world from the horrors of industrial fishing and farming.

Meanwhile, another thread of the narrative weaves in the lives of the fishes themselves: the incredible struggles of the Atlantic salmon and secretive eel; the pike, a lean and camouflaged predator; the carp, huge and stately, begetter of obsessions; the exquisite spotted brown trout and its silver cousin, the grayling. Lives built on and around fishing have largely faded from Britain, but fishermen and conservationists are working tirelessly to prevent the same fate befalling the fishes.

\n Weight: 322g\n
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 29 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780008283483\n \n