Marine Fisheries Resource Center
For Anglers: Resources

The following list includes reading materials used to prepare the Angler’s Resource Kit:

Bottom Fishing by Frank Woolner and Henry Lyman. Nick Lyons Books. The Salt Water Sportsman Library. ISBN 0-941130-63-0.


Fishes of Chesapeake Bay by Edward O. Murdy, Ray Birdsong and John A. Musick. Smithsonian Institution Washington Press. ISBN 1-56098-638-7.


Fishing for Bluefish by Al Ristori. The Fisherman Library, New Jersey.


Fishing for Fluke by Don Kamienski. The Fisherman Library, New Jersey.


Good Fishing Close to New York City: A guide to the great close-to-home angling of the metropolitan region by Jim Capossela. Northeast Sportsman Press, Tarrytown, New York. ISBN 0-942990-07-2 (paperback).


Living Resources of the Delaware Estuary by Louise E. Dove and Robert M. Nyman. The Delaware Esuatry Program.


Marine Animals of Southern New England and New York: Identification keys to common nearshore and shallow water macrofauna by Howard M. Weiss. State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut. ISBN 0-942081-06-4.


Marine Gamefish of the Middle Atlantic by David K. Bullock. Special Publication No 13 of the American Littorial Society, Highlands, New Jersey.


Massachusetts Saltwater Sport Fishing Guide. Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.


McClane’s Field Guide to Saltwater Fishes of North America by A.J. McClane. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-03-021121-2.


Nick Karas’ Guide to Saltwater Fishing in New York Waters by Nick Karas. Karas Map Publishing Company, St. James, New York.


Northeast Party Boat Fishing by Tom Schlichter. Northeast Sportsman Press, Tarrytown, New York. ISBN 0-942990-10-2 (paperback).


Recreational Fisheries of Coastal New England by Michael R. Ross. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0-87023-743-8 (paperback).


Surf Fishing With the Experts by Richard Reina and William A. Muller. L.I.F. Publishing Corporation, Sag Harbor.


The Hook Book: A Guide to Common Marine Organisms of Sandy Hook. New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, Sandy Hook, New Jersey.


The Tidemarsh Guide by Mervin F. Roberts. A Dutton Paperbacks, E.P. Dutton, New York. ISBN 0-525-93080-9.

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