Descrizione

Rome, FAO, 1981. Oblong Folio (27.9 x 34.0 cm). x, 24 pp.; numerous, mostly coloured maps on 69 sheets (five, larger, folded). Original pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers (with world maps). = This atlas shows in a clear and attractive way where - geographically and bathymetrically -, which, and how many fish and whales were present or caught in all the seas and oceans in the 1980's. This in relation with sea currents, seasons, geo-politics, etc., etc. Written and compiled by leading researchers in all field of fishery and fish research. A great benchmark in comparing facts and developments in our present time. This is the seldom-seen revised fourth edition, which is much rarer than the 1971-1972 first to third editions. Stamp of fishery research laboratory on the front endpapers, otherwise a very good, clean copy.