Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish - Macaw Pets store

This guide is derived from the widely praised and award-winning volume
Ken Schultz’s Fishing Encyclopedia. Weighing nearly 10 pounds
and containing 1,916 pages of information in an 8.5- by 11-inch format,
it is hardly a book that can be taken afield or casually perused.
Among the many virtues of the encyclopedia is its detailed information
about prey and predator species worldwide, which many people—including
numerous lure designers, scientific researchers, and anglers—find very valuable
and which is available nowhere else. To make it easier for people interested
in the major North American fish species to reference this subject
matter, that portion of the encyclopedia was excerpted into two compact
and portable guides, Ken Schultz’s Field Guide to Freshwater Fish and Ken
Schultz’s Field Guide to Saltwater Fish.
These books are primarily intended for the angler, placing major emphasis
on gamefish species (nearly 260) sought in the fresh- and saltwaters of
Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and on the prey species that most
gamefish use for forage. Although many hundreds of species are included
here, such compact books lack room for detailed information about many of
the lesser species; however, they are well represented in the information that
exists under certain groupings. For example, there are more than 300
species of “minnows” in North America, and much of what is said about
them as a group in the freshwater guide pertains to the majority of individuals.
Profiles are provided, nonetheless, of some of the more prominent
members of this group.
The same is true for some larger, more well-known groups of fish, like
sharks. There are at least 370 species of sharks worldwide and dozens in
North America. The saltwater guide provides an overview of this group, as
well as specific information about the most prominent North American
members. And, of course, color illustrations help identify the individual
species profiled.
There is a slight but deliberate content overlap in both books, as some
species occur in both freshwater and saltwater. This is primarily true for
anadromous fish like salmon, shad, and striped bass. However, a few saltwater
species, such as snook, mullet, and ladyfish, are known to move into
freshwater for part of their lives, even though they are not technically
anadromous, and thus are also represented in both volumes. In this sense,
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Introduction
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