Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Life-cycles of British freshwater fishes -- Habitats for freshwater fishes -- How to identify fishes -- The types of fishes -- Glossary and technical terms -- Salmon watching -- THE SPECIES ACCOUNTS: Introduction to the species accounts -- Carp and minnow family (Cyprinidae) -- Rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus -- Roach Rutilus rutilus -- Orfe Leuciscus idus -- Chub Squalius cephalus -- Dace Leuciscus leuciscus -- Common Bream Abramis brama -- Silver Bream Blicca bjoerkna -- Barbel Barbus barbus -- Tench Tinca tinca -- Crucian Carp Carassius carassius -- Goldfish Carassius auratus -- Common Carp Cyprinus carpio -- Grass Carp Ctenopharygodon idella -- Gudgeon Gobio gobio -- Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus -- Bleak Alburnus alburnus -- Sunbleak Leucaspius delineatus -- Topmouth Gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva -- Bitterling Rhodeus sericeus -- Salmon, trout, charr, freshwater whitefish and grayling family (Salmonidae) -- Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar -- Brown Trout / Sea Trout Salmo trutta -- Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss -- Grayling Thymallus thymallus -- Arctic Charr Salvelinus alpinus -- European Whitefish (Pollan/Powan/Schelly/Gwyniad) Coregonus lavaretus -- Vendace Coregonus albula -- Pike family (Esocidae) -- Pike Esox lucius -- Perch family (Percidae) -- Perch Perca fluviatilis -- Ruffe Gymnocephalus cernua -- Zander Sander lucioperca -- Sheatfish catfish family (Siluridae) -- Wels Catfish Siluris glanis -- North American freshwater catfish family (Ictaluridae) -- Black Bullhead Ameiurus melas -- Sunfish family (Centrarchidae) -- Pumpkinseed Sunfish Lepomis gibbosus -- River loach (or hillstream loach) family (Balitoridae) -- Stone Loach Nemacheilus barbatulus -- Loach family (Cobitidae) -- Spined Loach Cobitis taenia -- Sculpin family (Cottidae) -- Bullhead Cottus gobio.

Sturgeon family (Acipenseridae) -- Common Sturgeon Acipenser sturio -- Hake and burbot family (Lotidae) -- Burbot Lota lota -- Herring, shad, sardine and menhaden family (Clupeidae) -- Allis Shad Alosa alosa -- Twaite Shad Alosa fallax -- Stickleback and tubesnout family (Gasterosteidae) -- Three-spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus -- Ten-spined Stickleback Pungitius pungitius -- Freshwater eel family (Anguillidae) -- European Eel Anguilla anguilla -- Lamprey family (Petromyzontidae) -- Brook Lamprey Lampetra planeri -- River Lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis -- Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus -- Marine visitors -- Silversides family (Atherinidae) -- Sand-smelt Atherina presbyter -- Smelt family (Osmeridae) -- Smelt Osmerus eperlanus -- Righteye flounder family (Pleuronectidae) -- Flounder Platichthys flesus -- Temperate bass family (Moronidae) -- European Seabass Dicentrarchus labrax -- Mullet family (Mugilidae) -- Golden Grey Mullet Liza aurata -- Thin-lipped Grey Mullet Liza ramada -- Thick-lipped Grey Mullet Chelon labrosus -- Fishy fantasies -- Conservation and legislation -- Further reading and useful contacts -- Acknowledgements and photographic credits -- Index.