Carl Safina
A fresh splash of well-designed, beautifully illustrated information in a field-friendly book.
— Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean
Joe Malat
A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes will soon become my go to reference book. Val Kells and Kent Carpenter have combined their talents and wealth of experience to produce an accurate, easy-to-use field guide that clearly explains and shows a reader how to correctly identify coastal fishes. This book is a must have item for anyone who works with or has an interest in fish, fishing, and the marine environment. After seeing this book, I've discovered I need two copies; one for my office and one for my boat!
— Joe Malat, Joe Malat Communications
From the Publisher
Sized to fit inside the tackle-box, center console, dive bag, tote, or back-pack . . . If you’ve seen or caught a fish anywhere along the coast from Maine to Texas, from shallow inshore bays to offshore depths of about 660 feet, it is most likely identified here.—Reid Martin
A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes will soon become my go to reference book. Val Kells and Kent Carpenter have combined their talents and wealth of experience to produce an accurate, easy-to-use field guide that clearly explains and shows a reader how to correctly identify coastal fishes. This book is a must have item for anyone who works with or has an interest in fish, fishing, and the marine environment. After seeing this book, I’ve discovered I need two copies; one for my office and one for my boat!—Joe Malat, Joe Malat Communications
Magnificent book. Thank you Val and Kent for this labor of extraordinarily detailed, painstaking and accurate artwork/scientific illustration inseparable. It is the go-to reference of images and complementary text.—John Karges, The Nature Conservancy, Texas Chapter
A fresh splash of well-designed, beautifully illustrated information in a field-friendly book.—Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean
What a marvelous piece of work! I have used it to identify fish that I prepared as skeletons for the Smithsonian. Everyone connected with the production of the book deserves the heartiest congratulations. Val Kells must surely be one of the best scientific illustrators of all time.—Storrs Olson, Smithsonian Institution
Reid Martin
Sized to fit inside the tackle-box, center console, dive bag, tote, or back-pack... If you’ve seen or caught a fish anywhere along the coast from Maine to Texas, from shallow inshore bays to offshore depths of about 660 feet, it is most likely identified here.
Storrs Olson
What a marvelous piece of work! I have used it to identify fish that I prepared as skeletons for the Smithsonian. Everyone connected with the production of the book deserves the heartiest congratulations. Val Kells must surely be one of the best scientific illustrators of all time.
John Karges
Magnificent book. Thank you Val and Kent for this labor of extraordinarily detailed, painstaking and accurate artwork/scientific illustration inseparable. It is the go-to reference of images and complementary text.
— John Karges, The Nature Conservancy, Texas Chapter
