Best natural resources books according to redditors

It varies A LOT depending on the stream, but yes basically you have the right idea.

As long as you aren't doing anything illegal, feel free to keep or release whatever you feel like. The rules and regulations for fisheries are put there by people that generally know what they're doing. As you spend more time on a stream, you will get to know the character of it much better and can adjust your personal set of ethics as you see fit (still remaining within legal parameters lol). Picking up trash you might find and leaving spawning fish alone is always a good move on any trout stream. trout population health is very cyclical too, if you notice fluctuations in numbers and size, those are probably normal and nothing to worry about. check out this book if you want to get more hands on and do some experiments! Trout ecosystems are so cool!

Recirculating Aquaculture 3^rd Edition by Timmons & Ebeling.

It's hardly a picture-book (900+ pages), and it's not extremely in-depth in any one subject, but it's an authority in aquaculture and should give you a firm grasp of optimal system design

Point 1 would have us consider that Clausewitz was wrong all along.

Point 2 would suggest that we've been locked in an imperial war since 1991.

Point 3 would suggest that we will be at war for the indefinite future.

I would guess the biggest difference comes from the type and content of feed rather than the metabolism of the species. If anything, the species might be more efficient or not at converting the feed to biomass, which decides if there is more or less solid waste required to be removed from the recirculating flow

If you can find the following book in a library or borrow it then it's worth a shot to search your specific question: https://www.amazon.com/Recirculating-Aquaculture-3rd-Michael-Timmons/dp/0971264651

Encounters with the Archdruid

Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest

Desert Solitaire

I admittedly haven't followed their progress, but have a look at the concept of the Global Village Construction Set. The idea was "open [source] blueprints for the building blocks of civilization."

The Transition Handbook is also an excellent read with lots of concrete information and instructions on just the sorts of things you're looking for.

edit: I accidentally confused The Transition Handbook with the Toolbox for Sustainable City Living. Both are good, but the latter is definitely the hands-on, nitty-gritty book I was thinking of!

> Recirculating Aquaculture: 3rd Edition

Who did you murder to get that? http://www.amazon.com/Recirculating-Aquaculture-Edition-Michael-Timmons/dp/0971264651

I haven't read it yet, but here at work we recently bought Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict, which talks about exactly that.

> Timmons

This one?

http://www.amazon.com/Recirculating-Aquaculture-Edition-Michael-Timmons/dp/0971264651/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

http://www.amazon.com/Resource-Wars-Landscape-Conflict-Introduction/dp/0805055762

"When you buy this book now for $900.00 and sell it back later for a $1.00 Amazon.com Gift Card,
it could cost you as little as $899.00." Bet there's a line for that.

Start here: 49.637572, -114.492626

This is the start of highway 40 - the Forestry Trunk Road. Locally, it is called the 'Trout Highway'. For almost the entire stretch, it is Crown land (which is essentially public access, but God Save the Queen and all that noise), except for the times when you are in practically pristine provincial or national parks.

https://www.amazon.ca/Albertas-Trout-Highway-Fishing-Forestry/dp/0968860303

At the start, it is probably one of the busier sections in Alberta, but gullible cutthroat trout are worth being around a few extra people.

As you go north of the Trans Canada highway, you enter the area of Alberta's wildly underrated brown trout streams. The scenery is just as good, but brown trout are not as easy to catch. But with the practice acquired on the first leg of the trip, you will be prepped.

And as you get close to Highway 16 (also a trans-Canada highway, but not THE Trans Canada highway), the quarry changes from browns to fully native rainbows (often called athabows) and grayling. And bull trout.

Local fly fishing legend wrote this book: https://www.amazon.ca/Trout-Streams-Alberta-Guide-Fishing/dp/0921835175/ref=pd_sim_14_1/130-1085907-3153402?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=APRVCGD6QTPB5RDTC3PG

It breaks down the fishing based on the river basins, which is why the species change.

This drive is filled with breathtaking scenery. Once you are as far north as you would like. On your drive home, you can hit all the big rivers. The Bow River being the best spot to hit in Alberta. Or take Hwy 16/Trans Canada back to Vermont. It is pretty dry between Alberta and Ontario in terms of trout streams, but once you hit Ontario, there are hundreds of angling options, even without a boat.

But you have to be aware that Canada is not as cheap as US, even considering the difference in our dollar. Anything that is a 'vice' has a pretty big tax on it, like booze. You will find food to be about the same price.

My biggest warning is that you might not ever want to leave. :)

Get a copy of Alberta's Trout Highway : Fishing the Forestry Trunk Road

With zero aquaculture knowledge, I'd start studying some texts to give yourself an edge over other potential employees, there is a lot going on a farm, far more than what most people would anticipate.

For Aquaculture Technologies, research: [AKVA] (http://www.akvagroup.com/home) These guys seem to be the leading suppliers of technologies all over the world.

For an Introduction to recirculating aquaculture, research: Timmons' Book This book is basically the aquaculture bible.

It's not very difficult to learn the basic types of filters and systems, just spend a little time reading.

The yellow book. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0971264627

Excellent reference for aqauculture, and includes a specific chapter on aquaponics written by Rakocy.

Rakocy and Lennard were supposed to have come out with a book on aquaponics in 2013, so were Timmons and Ebeling. Not a clue on when or if we will ever be seeing those texts. Seems like a lot of public research has stalled regarding aquaponics.

Is there any particular part of biology you are looking to understand? For cell biology, for example, there are probably good ones that start with the mitochondrion as the power supply and explains how proteins are assembled from DNA, and then how extra proteins are digested back into amino acids by the lysosome, etc...

At the macro level there might be something but I haven't found it. Here's how I would write it though. You'd have to start with the idea that all organisms need a ton of carbon to survive, which is why there's so little of it in the atmosphere (CO2 is ~400ppm). Then note that we need relatively little Nitrogen, but the atmosphere has a ton of that (70%), so getting rid of excess Nitrogen is gonna be a key part of the system. Next note that they all need oxygen to burn energy (just like an engine), which comes largely from either what's dissolved in water or in the atmosphere (not what's bonded to hydrogen in the water, that takes a lot of energy to unwind so it's not a good oxidizer.) Finally, they need some hyrdogen but not a ton, that comes mostly from water and gets bonded to Carbons in various ways, mostly to store energy but also to make parts. From there you get a basic living organism: seeking carbon by any means possible, burning oxygen, drinking water and pumping out excess nitrogen. Every organism does each one in different ways. Plants, for example, get their carbon from the small amount in the atmosphere, Animals on the other hand have to eat other organsims to get their carbon. Plants have a weird way of handling nitrogen called the nitrogen cycle, and that I don't fully understand. Fish on the other hand pump it out in the form of amonia right into the water, which would be harmful if there weren't a whole ocean or lake of water around them to absorb it, but Mammals have to hang onto the Nitrogen and store it in a nice water-soluble form (Urea) until they can pump a bunch out at once. But that's I think waht the diagram would look like.

Anyway, I'm a Stats grad student but my research is in DNA sequence analysis, so I've spent a lot of time looking for various explanations like this and have basically had to assemble them in my head as I read wikipedia for the zillionth time. As I look back at what I wrote now I realize that it's probably exactly the kind of oversimplification you were not looking for, but it was worth a shot. Good luck and post any good ones if you find them.

ETA: Actually one thing I just thought of that you might be interested in is some explanation of how indoor recirculating aquaculture systems operate. That's how I learned a good portion of the biology I know, but a system like that is basically a big block diagram with inputs and outputs, and mass balances are the major constraints that have to be built around. This is the book I've always used, mainly because I took Timmons' course in college: http://www.amazon.com/Recirculating-Aquaculture-3rd-Michael-Timmons/dp/0971264651 . Anyway, that's a thought. Good luck.

Yes, fish can develop issues if they are constantly swimming in one circular direction. You may be able to avoid this with a large enough tank, but most tanks aren't that large. This paper expresses a few issues with round tanks and I have personally witnessed scoliosis caused by swimming long term, in the same direction, in circular tanks.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270422/

You should check out mixed cell raceways. Also, read Recirculating Aquaculture by M.B. Timmons and J.M. Ebeling. I took a short course from them, in Maine. I aslo have a MS in aquculture/aquatic science. Hope this helps.

https://www.amazon.com/Recirculating-Aquaculture-M-B-Timmons-Ebeling/dp/0971264627