"This comprehensive and fully illustrated guide and reference hook is a companion volume to the author's Sea Anglers' Fishes of New Zealand.

Its main purposes are to supply information that will enable the average person who has no specialised knowledge of fishes to identify correctly the larger Game Fishes and Sharks of New Zealand, and to give briefly some general information on their habits, life-histories and distribution. There is a full description of the characteristics of each species, as well as keys for identification within the various families, and statistics of record catches are given. Not only will this book be essential to the amateur fisherman in New Zealand, but it will also be valuable to all who are interested in fishes, and in Natural History generally. "