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Find out about this vast and rich storehouse of living things through lively descriptions of ocean plants and animals. From plankton too small for the naked eye to see, to sharks as big as a school bus, kids discover how each marine wonder has adapted to the ocean's unique conditions. Detailed drawings and full-color photographs bring the ocean to the reader, while the accompanying text explores the mysteries of Earth's oceans and ocean life. Safe and simple experiments and activities that can be done at home or in the classroom give children hands-on experience with marine life. ... Read more

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An authoritative and lavishly illustrated guide to marine life around the world, featuring profiles of hundreds of bony and cartilaginous fish, plus shells, crabs, corals, echinoderms, seals, jellyfish, dolphins, sharks, rays, sea snakes, and many more. ... Read more

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Future Marine Biologist
Great pictures, and lots of them, with text to match.Bought for my 10 yr old grandson, who wants to learn everything he can about the sea and fishes who live there. Very educational and was a hit! ... Read more

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The Antarctic Atlas makes it possible to recognize any fish from the waters of the Antarctic Ocean. ... Read more

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Fishes ofthe Tropical Eastern Pacific
The book is an outstanding work and field guide for unusual species encountered while fishing in Pacific Central America. Text and Photographs are the best I've seen, and the information the most comprehensive to date. The book is a masterpiece for the genre. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science News, published by Science Service, Inc. on October 25, 2008. The length of the article is 526 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bluefins mingle across the ocean: findings could complicate fish management plans.(Life)
Author: Rachel Ehrenberg
Publication: Science News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 25, 2008
Publisher: Science Service, Inc.
Volume: 174Issue: 9Page: 15(1)

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The shape of fish otoliths is highly species specific. Since otoliths resist degradation better than most other tissues, the shape and size of preserved or undigested otoliths recovered from fossilized sediments, native middens, and the stomachs and droppings of fish predators can be used to reconstruct the species composition of the diet or fish assemblage. This photographic atlas presents light and (or) scanning electron micrographs of 580 pairs of sagittal otoliths representing 288 species, 97 families, and 27 orders of fish from the northwest Atlantic. For most species, multiple individuals across a range of sizes are presented in order to highlight changes in otolith shape with increased size. For 72 of the families, photographs of the lapillar and asteriscal otoliths are also presented. ... Read more

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With this new edition, this multimedia reference work now includes over an hour of narrated underwater video, original music, and extensive underwater photography. Observe more than 30 families and over 100 species of fish, complemented with comprehensive text and videos. This second edition features detailed sections on marine life taxonomy (including invertebrates), an expanded internal anatomy section, and a section on the formation of coral reefs. The maps of Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga have now been expanded to cover scuba diving areas within the region. ... Read more

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Text and photographs introduce the physical characteristics and behavior of parrotfish. ... Read more

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Parrotfish
This book was fine but I was looking for a book for my 8-year old's research project. This book is more appropriate for younger readers. ... Read more

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This is a handy guide to all fishes that are likely to be observed by anybody visiting or diving on the coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific and the western Atlantic Oceans to a depth of sixty meters. Accessible to amateur marine life enthusiasts, this book is the first comprehensive guide of its kind. It enables the reader quickly to identify 2,074 species of fish and includes over 2,500 color illustrations depicting the major forms of each species--male, female, immature, or geographical varieties.Here coral reef is used broadly to include areas adjacent to reefs where corals may occur, such as harbors, bays, and rocky tidepools as well as reef-associated habitats such as seagrass beds, sandy expanses, and open rocky bottoms. The text begins with a valuable introduction to such topics as the coral reef environment, habitats, ecology, social interactions, conservation, and dangerous marine fishes. Of particular interest is a section offering pointers on identifying fish. The text proceeds according to region, depicting each species and its varieties, and offering information on its geographic range and where on the coral reef itself the fish may be found. Important identification characteristics are highlighted on every color plate."I have used this book for identifying fishes I have seen underwater. It is one of the best for this purpose since it is handy and comprehensive, containing all likely coral reef fishes in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific. Most other books contain only a subset. In addition, this guide provides clues for quick and proper identification."--Rainer Froese, Senior Scientist, International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), PhilippinesAmazon.com Review
If you're a scuba-diving or tropical-fish enthusiast, you'llwant this well-illustrated, comprehensive guide to the reef fishes ofthe Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific, where creatures withlime skeletons form giant underwater structures. No coral reef isquite like the next, but most abound in life. Ewald Lieske and RobertMyers catalog 2,074 fish species, each with a color plate,description, and notes on range and ecology. Bigeyes, snooks,stargazers, sweetlips: the names are a song, and this compendium makesa wonderful symphony.END ... Read more

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compact and comprehensive - a fish book for travelers
Robert F. Myers is a noted authority on reef fishes and author of the widely acclaimed book Micronesian Reef Fishes. Unlike that large, detailed and excellent volume, however, this book has small, color drawings instead of photographs. This allows the color plates to depict many similar-looking fishes on a single page, just as bird ID books do. Key markings on the fish are indicated unobtrusively with lines. The page opposite contains ID notes that correspond to the drawings. I think the drawings are adequate for most identification purposes and I find the "many fishes on one page" scheme helpful, although some other readers obviously disagree. But what makes this book a winner is that it combines comprehensiveness with small size. It describes an amazing 2000 species, all in a small, lightweight, easily carried, easily packed paperback. In short, it's perfect for taking along on a dive trip. The big, detailed fish books are great, of course, but too heavy to travel with. Use this book in the field, then look up further information in the big books when you get back home.

Pretty good,but not the best
This book covers more species than any other in my collection of good fish books,about 30 ones!That`s why I'll give it three stars. The illustrations are beautifull but if you wish to identify real fishes,this isn`t right book for you. It covers both Indo-Pacific and Caribbean and it describes 2000 species and about 1500 are from Indo-Pacific. That`s what good with it. It is also enjoyable to read,as you can learn a lot but I would appreciate a photo book about the area better,because then the fish looks like as you see it in the natural habitat. But if you like to draw coral reef fishes,I can recommend you to look at the pictures of this book. Real photographs are sometimes too detailed. And I think the sharks section should be bigger. There are about 400 species of sharks,and only 3 color plates are about sharks with a total number of may be 40 species!That`s not enough. But the angelfish chapters are absoulutley detailed. But if you wish to have a really good book,I would recommend "Reef Fish Identification" for the Caribbean and "South East Asia Tropical Fish Guide" for the Pacific.

Illustration Only
Its a great book for an entire collection, but hard to identify real species from the book. It is a list of all the species with fair illustrations and short description of each. Not what I expected. Probablygood for Marine Bio.

Most useful book I ever bought!
I am an avid scuba diver and recreational fisherman. This book is a tremendously useful book for identification of ocean fish.The book not only has detailed colored drawings of fish, but also includes adescription, habitat, feeding habits, and possible dangers.I highlyrecommend this book to any diving or fishing enthusiasts.

Most useful book I ever bought!
I am an avid scuba diver and recreational fisherman. This book is a tremendously useful book for identification of ocean fish.The book not only has detailed colored drawings of fish, but also includes adescription, habitat, feeding habits, an dpossible dangers.I highlyrecommend this book to any diving or fishing enthusiasts. ... Read more

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Antarctic finfish have been exploited for more than two decades and many stocks now appear to be overfished. This is the first detailed account of this fishery, and will help us better understand how to manage it. The book begins by giving a comprehensive description of Antarctic fish biology and ecology, the thorough understanding of which is a prerequisite to sound management of the fishery. Subsequent sections consider the course of finfish exploitation and the present state of exploited fish stocks in the Southern Ocean. The author concludes by proposing more effective management methods for the fish resources of the Southern Ocean in light of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. ... Read more

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The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) also known as great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of more than 6 metres (20 ft) and weighing up to 2,240 kilograms (4,938 lb), the great white shark is arguably the world's largest known predatory fish. It is the only surviving species of its genus, Carcharodon. ... Read more

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Indian Ocean harbour about 4000 fish species. Except identifying characters and taxonomic status of the species, it is practically impossible to describe the bionomics of each of the four thousand species, since studies have not been made for all and reliable informations are not available in respect of many uneconomical species. Thus in a dynamic ocean, with so many regional micro-climatic and hydrological changes, many of the commercially important fish species fluctuate in their seasonal inshore migration resulting appearance of huge fish shoals forming a good fishery in some years, while there is a failure of the fishery in other years due to the disappearance of the shoals. Considering this dynamic condition of the sea and the dynamic nature of fish species, regional, area wise, depth wise movement and their assemblage have been described in the book.In the book, besides, describing identifying characters of major groups of fish, details of pelagic commercially important oceanic tuna, biological characteristics of some economically significant species of each of major fish groups have been mentioned with special reference to the seas around Indian Sub-Continent. Occurrence and capture of species forming commercial fishery from seventeen fishing grounds along the Indian coasts have been outlined in the book. Significant details in respect of more than four hundred fish species of economic importance is an additional attraction of the book. The book contain numerous diagrams sketches and photographs. ... Read more

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Most marine organisms that live near the coast broadcast their eggsand larvae into the vast expanses of the ocean. In many species, thispelagic episode is the sole opportunity for dispersal. As such, itstructures the connections between populations which, in turn,determine the demography and genetic composition of coastalcommunities. Contrary to common belief, these "larvae" are not justdrafts of the adults, passively roaming the ocean; they are veryspecialised organisms, often tightly adapted totheir environment. In this book, I strive to evaluate the consequencesof the behaviour of fish larvae during their pelagic life. I presentexperimental approaches to quantify larval orientation andswimming in situ. I detail the analysis of data collected during anoceanographic cruise to characterise the distribution oflarvae in three dimensions and understand physical-biologicalinteractions in the ocean. Finally, I introduce a novel modellingframework, drawing from cost minimisation techniques traditionallyused in economics or in the optimal foraging theory, which allows tointegrate larval behaviour into Lagrangian models of larvaldispersal. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1925. A fascinating study of many of the more unusual fish species of the world. The illustrated contents include: Walking and Climbing Fish - Electric Fish - Blind Fish - Armoured Fish - Flying Fish - Lung fish - Nursing Fish - Nest Building Fish - Luminous Fish - Giant Fish - Fighting Fish and many others. Many of the earliest natural history books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more