BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON MARINE LIFE AND MARINE PARKS
The Blue Planet
Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes, BBC Worldwide, London 2001
A companion volume to the BBC TV series
Oceanography
Tom Garrison, Brooks/Cole – Thomson Learning, Belmont CA USA, 2005
Everything from the big bang to finding a job as a marine scientist
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson, first published 1950, OUP New York, 1951
A classic and poetic evocation of the sea
Earlier books by Jacques Cousteau, Hans Hass and Australians Ron and Valerie Taylor and Benn Cropp are also of interest
Under Southern Seas
Neil Andrew (ed), University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999
Comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, addresses life cycles of marine organisms, a bit skewed towards commercially important species
Australian Marine Habitats
Graham J Edgar, Reed New Holland, Sydney 2001
Discusses the various marine ecosystems
Australian Marine Life
Graham J Edgar, Reed Books, Melbourne 1997, 2nd ed 2008
The best guide to everything
Sea Fishes of Southern Australia
Barry Hutchins and Roger Swainston, Swainston Publishing Willeton WA, 1986
Standard field guide in portable format, fishes illustrated with paintings
Coastal Fishes of South-Eastern Australia
Rudie Kuiter
Very comprehensive, several photos for each species, just a bit big to carry around
Plenty of books available on sharks including:
Leighton Taylor (ed), Sharks and Rays, Readers Digest, Sydney 1997;
Plenty of books on shells, including several by Neville Coleman;
Diana Jones and Gary Morgan, A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Australian Waters, Reed New Holland, Sydney 1994; Mark Norman and Amanda Reid, A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopuses of Australasia, Collingwood, 2000;
James R Spotila, Sea Turtles, John Hopkins, Baltimore, 2004;
Plenty of books on whales, including:
Frank Stewart, The Presence of Whales, Alaska Northwest Books, 1995
Australian Seashores
W J Dakin, revised editions edited by Isobel Bennett, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, first published 1952, revised edition 1987
A classic, now out of print
Australian Marine Life Graham Edgar, (see above)
The Edge of the Sea
Rachel Carson, Houghton Mifflin, 1955
Not a field guide, as it deals with Atlantic North American marine life, but the systems are similar and Carson writes beautifully
FIELD GUIDES:
Harry Breidahl, Australia’s Southern Shores, Thomas C Lothian, Melbourne, 1997;
Keith Davey, Seashore Life of Australia, New Holland Publishers, Sydney, 1988;
Frank Haddon, Australia’s Seashores, Simon and Schuster, Sydney 1992;
A J Underwood and M G Chapman, Seashores, NSW University Press, Sydney 1993
Probably better to have a combination of these guides
The End of the Line
Charles Clover, Random House, London 2004
The Empty Ocean
Richard Ellis, Island Press, Washington DC, 2003
An Unnatural History of the Sea
Callum Roberts, Gaia Publishing, London, 2007
Seasick
Alanna
Mitchell, Murdoch Books Australia, Sydney, 2008
Reef Fish Identification – Tropical Pacific
Allen, Steene, Humann, DeLoach, , New World Publications, Jacksonville, 2003
The best tropical fish ID guide
Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide
Gerald Allen and Roger Steene, , Tropical Reef Research, Singapore, 1994
Extremely useful, covers all groups of marine fauna and flora, in a compact volume with a plasticized cover
Fiona R Gell and Callum M Roberts, The Fisheries Effects of Marine Reserves and Fishery Closures, WWF, Washington,
Fiona R Gell and Callum M Roberts, Beyond Boundaries: The Fisheries Effects of Marine Reserves, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Roberts, Bohnsack, Gell, Hawkins, Goodridge, Effects of Marine Reserves on Adjacent Fisheries, www.sciencemag.org
National Statement on Marine Protected Areas from Australia’s Marine Scientists, AMSA-ACRA_MPA-STMT_Sept07
Australia’s Oceans Policy, http://www.environment.gov.au/net/oceanspo.html
The State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture, FAO, 2006, http://www.fao.org
Pauly et al, The Future For Fisheries, Science 302, 1359 (2003), www.sciencemag.org
Marine Sanctuaries, Saltwater Environment Alliance, www.sea.org.au
Survey of Recreational Fishing in NSW, www.dpi.nsw.gov.au
Bill Ballantine, Marine Reserves in New Zealand: The development of the concept and the principles
The Economist – Special Report on the State of the Oceans, www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12798458
Marine Parks Authority: www.mpa.nsw.gov.au
National Parks Association of NSW – Marine: www.marine.org.au
Nature Conservation Council of NSW: www.nccnsw.org.au
Australian Marine Conservation Society: www.amcs.org.au
DPI Fisheries: www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries
Ichthyology at the Australian Museum: www.amonline.net.au/FISHES/index.cfm
World Conservation Union: www.iucn.org/
Marine Education Society of Australasia: www.mesa.educ.au
Australian Institute of Marine Science: www.aims.gov.au
The Sea Slug Forum: www.seaslugforum.net
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: www.whoi.edu
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/Home