Fish category: 1105 books
by Matthew Landau
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 1997
Millions of people spend time around the ocean. In doing so, most have come into contact with an animal that has a protective mechanism of some sort. Landau explains in detail, with the aid of illustrations, the types of marine animals that exist in the waters of the Atlantic Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean and the particular type of toxins or dangers each poses.
Global Marine Biological Diversity
A Strategy For Building Conservation Into Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Global Marine Biological Diversity presents the mup-to-date information and view on the challenge of conserving the living sea and how that challenge can be met.
Blood and Guts
Dispatches from the Whale Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It’s loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels’ engines and the hiss of ten water cannons … Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces – afraid, excited,...
Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico
Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 1981, Woods Hole researcher C. Wylie Poag published the book Ecological Atlas of the Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico.
In this new volume, Poag has revised and updated the atlas, incorporating three decades of extensive data collections from the open Gulf and from an additional...
Into Great Silence
A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas
Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas struggling...
by Gerd Masselink, Michael Hughes, Jasper Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The world's coastlines represent a myriad of dynamic and constantly changing environments. Heavily settled and intensely used areas, they are of enormous importance to humans and understanding how they are shaped and change is crucial to our future.
Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphologybegins...
Shell Games
Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life...
by Bloomsbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This mini guide covers almost 180 species that live in the area between land and sea called the intertidal or littoral, zone. It includes all the most common molluscs, crustaceans, seaweeds, fishes, spiny creatures such as starfishes and sea urchins, mammals and many other species found here, and...
by Lawson Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean reveals the fascinating wealth of sea life found in this diverse but little-documented region. This compact and easy-to-use guide, illustrated with many specially-commissioned colour photographs taken in a number of unique and exotic locations, is an essential companion...
Between the Tides
In Search of Sea Turtles
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Much can be learned about the condition of the planet’s environment by looking at sea turtles; they have existed for more than 100 million years, and they travel throughout the world’s oceans. Suddenly, however, they are struggling to survive, largely because of harm that has been done to the...
Shark
In peril in the sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The shark has been our planet's dominant predator for millions of years. But in just fifty years all sharks have become threatened by human activity; victims of a deadly combination of overfishing, pollution and the destruction of their habitats. Although scientific knowledge of sharks is increasing...
by Rebecca Stott
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
As everybody knows, oysters are the ultimate aphrodisiac. Casanova is said to have eaten 50 raw oysters every morning with his mistress of the moment, in a bathtub designed for two. Whether oysters truly have exciting properties is open to debate, but like all seafoods, they contain high amounts of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The idea of the Arctic Ocean as a mediterranean sea is a shock to those of us—and that includes most of us—who cannot shake ourselves free of the Mercatorean vision. Yet this theme is repeated by many of the eminent ocntributors to this volume: as Michael Marsden states, "IT is difficult...
Bass Fishing Techniques
An Irresistible Look Into The World of Puerto Vallarta Fishing, Bass Fishing Lures, Bass Fishing Fundamentals, Bass Fishing Tournaments
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
The complete guide to bass fishing that's stuffed with step-by-step techniques for bass fishing, bass fishing tournaments to watch out for, what you must know about bass fishing lures, Puerto Vallarta fishing and more.