FRESHWATER FISHES IN BRITAIN: THE SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. By Cynthia Davies and others.

2004 1st edition. Pp176. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations, distribution maps, bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards.

"This is the first [book] to deal with the detailed occurence of freshwater fishes in Britain." Covers the British Isles, excluding Ireland. Species illustrations taken from Francis Day. Recently introduced species are illustrated in the same style by Michael J. Roberts. Chapters include: Introduction - the importance of freshwater fishes, fishes and other wildlife, cultural consciousness of freshwater fishes in Britain, study and surveys of freshwater fishes in Britain; The distribution of freshwater fishes in Britain - origins of native fishes, natural distribution, human influences; Database and Atlas of Freshwater Fishes Project; Species accounts and distribution maps - lampreys, common sturgeon, eel, shads, silver bream, common bream, bleak, barbel, goldfish, crucian carp, grass carp, common carp, gudgeon, sunbleak, chub, orfe, dace,minnow, gudgeon, bitterland, roach, rudd, tench, spined loach, stone loach, black bullhead, Danube catfish, pike, smelt, vendace, whitefish, rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon, brown trout and sea trout, Arctic charr, brook charr [ie. American brook trout], grayling, burbot, three-spined stickleback, nine-spined stickleback, bullhead, pumpkinseed, largemouth bass, ruffe/pope, perch, zander, grey mullets, tilapia, flounder; Conservation and management of freshwater fishes. Appendices cover annotated list of publications on freshwater fishes 1686-2004, legislation on fish conservation, legislation on control of non-native species. Useful and detailed information.