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[lilyea]

One of the many great parts of the convention is the auction that included a large selection of books and I was fortunate enough to bring home several (looking back I wish that I had bid more aggressively and brought home a few more!).  I found time to read “A Net Full of Natives” this past week and I can completely understand why many refer to it as the little book that introduced them to the wonders of native fish.  In addition to being informative, it was a truly enjoyable 75 pages of reading. It is written in a narrative style and introduces nine unique native species of fish ranging from more common sunfish to less common mudminnows and sticklebacks.  I am curious to know who has read this book and did it prompt your entry or expand your interest in native fishes?

 

…next on the list is “Fishes of Utah”.  No really, there is a “Fishes of Utah”!

[mattknepley]

Net Full of Natives was an eye-opener for me. It took the interest and enthusiasm I had for fish and fishing and widened my horizons, not only in terms of fish themselves but in ways they might be observed. I must've read that book a hunnert times. Every time I was right there in the story. Love that little book.

[Michael Wolfe]

I bid against you some, but you were more insistent than I.

I have never read it but I thought there was an ongoing series in FAMA by the same name (back in the 1990s). I was interested in the book because it was that series in the back of a mag that I was buying for the reef stuff, that first got me into natives when he reviewed the first Fishes of Alabama. I was living in Alabama at the time, and it really opened my eyes to native possibilities.

[harryknaub]

That was one of the first books I bought on native fish.

[gerald]

I got David Schleser's N. Amer Native Fishes for the Home Aquarium  (Barron's, 1998) - it's another very good overview of fish biology, ID, nutrition, water chemistry, health, and care specifics on a wide variety of species.

[lilyea]

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I have never read it but I thought there was an ongoing series in FAMA by the same name (back in the 1990s). I was interested in the book because it was that series in the back of a mag that I was buying for the reef stuff, that first got me into natives when he reviewed the first Fishes of Alabama. I was living in Alabama at the time, and it really opened my eyes to native possibilities.

 

The author, Tom Baugh, wrote both the book and the FAMA articles and is a former NANFA BOD member which he explains in a 1982 American Currents article that is part of the awesome, but highly underused, resource on the NANFA website that lists several articles by fish groups and other selected AC articles.

 

I got David Schleser's N. Amer Native Fishes for the Home Aquarium  (Barron's, 1998) - it's another very good overview of fish biology, ID, nutrition, water chemistry, health, and care specifics on a wide variety of species.

 

Gerald - somewhere along the way I picked up the 1977 pamphlet entitled "Enjoy Keeping Native Fishes" that began to give shape to my undirected interest in native fishes that had started with collecting crayfish in the 1970s.  The Florida Collecting Guide and the influence of a few native fish collectors/keepers also were significant to push me along this journey.

[Michael Wolfe]

 

The author, Tom Baugh, wrote both the book and the FAMA articles and is a former NANFA BOD member which he explains in a 1982 American Currents article that is part of the awesome, but highly underused, resource on the NANFA website that lists several articles by fish groups and other selected AC articles.

 

 

That was a great article... pretty much still on target... I suggest we re-print that.

[Irate Mormon]

I snagged a copy as well, for that book is of great historical significance.  Also "Our Native Fishes" by John Quinn, for the same reason.