From the Coral Sea north-east of Australia, currents flow toward New Zealand sweeping past the tip of the North Island and on down the East coast. This provides an excellent habitat for a wide range of marine life. Wade Doak has compiled a comprehensive photographic record of fishes found in the oceans of New Zealand. Accompanied with text based on underwater research by himself and the new school of diving marine biologists. This book is a 1984 revised edition in very good order. (Minor damage on the back of the dust cover.)

In this revised edition, the author has added a further 16 pages of colour plates and text dealing the southern fishes of the NZ conshelf.