Water-Power Development in Relation to Fishes and Mussels of the Mississippi (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Water-Power Development in Relation to Fishes and Mussels of the Mississippi (Classic Reprint) written by Robert E. Coker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Water-Power Development in Relation to Fishes and Mussels of the Mississippi It is one Of the tragedies of fish life, catastrophic in degree at times, that the spawning grounds may be found during spring floods far from the main course Of the river, where an untimely recession will leave a generation of young fish isolated in some overflow pond, and marked for destruction unless reclaimed by the agency Of Govern ment or State. Such fish destruction is evident, and of common knowledge, but that which occurs when the flood stage comes late and after the fish have found nests in the originally shallow waters of the river banks at low stage, can only be guessed at. Accordingly, the significance of the interpolation in the course Of a great river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.