Salmon: a fish, the earth, and the history of their common fate

Prologue: A tale of two fisheries

Part one. The hero. A family matter ; A hero's life

Part two. A human problem. The original salmon ; Old ways in the new land ; A golden fish arrives in the east ; When it was working ; The white man comes ; Nowhere to run

Part three. The problem with solutions. Why not make more? ; Sea cattle ; The release

Part four. The dangerous future. Elegy for the Atlantic ; The ballad of the Pacific ; The golden fish departs

Epilogue: It concerns us

Endnotes

Appendix. Wild Pacific salmon : myths, false assumptions, and a failed management paradigm / Jim Lichatowich and Nick Gayeski.