Book Review: An Entirely Synthetic Fish

February 24, 2010 By: Marshall Cutchin

syntheticfish_150.jpgSamuel Snyder, who is currently the John Daniels Fellow at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia, reviews Anders Halverson’s new book An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Over Ran the World.
It’s “hardly a criticism of the fish or the people who love to fish for them,” Snyder says in his MidCurrent review. “Instead, it is a tale of how well intended programs have gone utterly wrong.”