New Edition Of

Popular Treatise

On Fish

Because almost everyone who

lives along Australia’s long

coastline is a fisherman at one time or another and is curious to know more about the fish (if any) he catches, there has always been a steady demand for the late T. C. Roughley’s authoritative treatise Fish and Fisheries of Australia.

FRST published in 1952 and reprinted at regular intervals since then, the book contains detailed but easy-to-read descriptions of every fish to be found in Australian waters, plus information on such matters as commercial fishing' methods, fish canning, trout fishing, sharks and their products, big-game angling and underwater spear-gun fishing.

The descriptions of the fish are enhanced by numerous illustrations in colour, which make them easy to identify.

The latest edition of Mr.

Roughley’s book has been completely revised throughout with the assis tance of the Australian Marine Sciences Association, and several new chapters have been added.

The new chapters include one on fisheries research by Dr. G. L, Ke steven, assistant chief of the CSIRO Division of Fisheries; and two on crayfish and related families, and on molluscs by Dr. J. M.

Thomson, secretary of the Marine Sciences Association.

Other experts have contributed fresh material to the chapters on big-game angling, underwater spear gun fishing, and trout fishing.

Another innovation is that com mercial catch figures, the minimum legal lengths of fish, and weight records of Australian fish have been removed from the general text and placed in appendices at the end of the book, so that they are easy to get at.

However, the publishers point out that “no substantial alteration of the text has been attempted, so that Roughley’s individual style is retained”.

In short, the latest edition appears to have all the old virtues and quite

a few new ones.-

RL.

(Fish And Fisheries Op Aus

TRALIA. Angus and Robertson. $A7.50.)