Fishes of the Open Ocean : : a Natural History & Illustrated Guide

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Environment, biology and fisheries -- Why fishes of the open ocean? -- The oceanic web of life -- Form and function -- Interactions with humans -- Guide to the fishes -- Billfishes -- Tunas -- Mackerels -- Jacks/trevallies -- Other pelagic gamefishes -- Sharks and rays -- Other open-ocean fishes.
"Fishes of the Open Ocean", from leading marine biologist and world authority on the subject Julian Pepperell, is the first book to comprehensively describe open-ocean fishes (pelagics) and explore the complex and often fragile world in which they live.

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PUBLISHED
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 266 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0226655393
9780226655390

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Harvey, Guy, 1955-

SUBJECTS
Deep-sea fishes.
Marine fishes.
Pelagic fishes.