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Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage: Percidae - Perch, Pikeperch, and Darters, Volume 4 (Reproductive ... History of Fish in the Ohio River Drainage)

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This monumental seven volume work covers the early life of most of the fishes in the Ohio River Basin. This is volume 4 and covers the percidae family. This includes fish such as the perch, pikeperch and darters that are found not only in the Ohio but throughout much of the rest of the United States.

The book concentrates on the early life of the fish, which is distinctly different from the life of the adult fish. This provides invaluable information for anyone interested in protecting the spawning grounds or habitat of the fish.

This is a very large book, it reports on extensive research on these fish including drawings, measurements, distinguishing characteristics, and more. These books represent the definitive authority on the subject and represent a type of research that has been all to infrequent in these days of bioinformatics and concentrations on things like gene analysis.