A lot has been written about fish, that is true. While reading, the
observative reader will have noticed, that a lot of misstatements have been made about fish.
Your need of reliable information on fish will be satisfied on these pages.
One of the early, and probably most interesting and complete works on British fish, is without
any doubt "A history of British Fishes" by William Yarrell (1836).
Yarrell (1784-1856) was the first important British ichthyologist. His work is still worth
reading and one of the most reliable early European works on fish. The Fish Shop offers you all
of Yarrell's work on freswater fish.
At this moment we are busy presenting you excerpts on freshwater fishes from the charming "The Natural History of British Fishes" by Frank Buckland (1826-1880). The Fish Shop is a sequel to its Dutch predecessor: "De Visschenwinkel". After completing the presentation of Buckland's work on freshwater fish, we will proceed, as was done on the Dutch Visschenwinkel, by adding more scientific or otherwise outstanding literature on freshwater fish.
Talking about outstanding literature on (freshwater) fish: The Fish Shop has consulted "The Fishes
of The British Isles & N.W. Europe by Alwyne Wheeler (1969) more than once.
We have included some literature on angling, and what other classic work on angling could we have
consulted but "The Compleat Angler", by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (1676).
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