Suitable as a text for elementary through high school and maybe college biology courses, this book might also make the reader a better angler, and allow you to see the watery world around you very differently.

Killer Fish alerts consumers to how eating aquatic life endangers their health.

We eat more fish than ever before. But what's the story behind the fish on your plate? Where did it come from? Which fish can we buy without worrying? What's the difference between wild, farmed and organic?

Features recipes and preparation tips for almost one hundred different kinds of fish and shellfish

But, as Balcombe demonstrates, the truth is far richer and more complex, worthy of the grandest social novel.

Example in this ebook I. THE BOY AND THE BROOK MA, may I go fishing?