THE OPEN SEA: ITS NATURAL HISTORY. PART II: FISH AND FISHERIES. WITH CHAPTERS ON WHALES, TURTLES AND ANIMALS OF THE SEA FLOOR. By Sir Alister C. Hardy. New Naturalist No. 37.

1959 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 223mm). Ppxiv,322. Illustrated with colour plates by the author, "with watercolour and line drawings by the author, 68 photographs in black and white by Douglas Wilson and others, and diagrams and maps". Green buckram, spine titled in gilt.

This is a comprehensive examination of the fish and fisheries of British waters. This is the companion volume to The Open Sea: Its Natural History. The World of Plankton. This second volume discusses the fishing industry of the day and its problems, devoting one eleventh-hour chapter to 'The Over-Fishing Problem'. Another chapter is 'The Ecologists and the Future', by which we can judge ourselves in retrospect. The introduction contains a summary of Volume I. Chapters include: On fish in general; The herring and the herring fisheries; Other pelagic fish; Benthos - life on the ocean floor; More about the benthos, and its relation to the fisheries; The trawl, line and seine-net fisheries; The story of the plaice; Hags, hounds, sharks and skates; Bottom-living bony fish; Hake, haddock, cod and co. ; Parasitic profusion; The over-fishing problem; Marine reptiles - fact and fancy; Whales, walruses and 'wild' men; The ecologists and the future. Includes two pages about tunny in the North Sea, with two good photographs.