BIG GAME FISHES AND SHARKS OF NEW ZEALAND. By Arthur W. Parrott.

1958 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 210mm). Pp127. B/w photographs, illustrations, glossary. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

This book, "a companion volume to Sea Angler's Fishes of New Zealand, gives a concise account of the larger game fishes and sharks that been recorded from New Zealand waters. Its main purposes are to supply information that will enable the average person who has no specialised knowledge of fishes to identify correctly our larger game fishes and sharks, and to give briefly some general information on their habits, life histories and distribution". Includes some material on contemporary New Zealand big game fishing as well as records of notable catches.