Dangerous Fishes of New Zealand

About this book

Among the aims of the present book is to educate local New Zealanders about the dangers of this group of fishes as part of a public education and awareness program that should be initiated in coastal areas. It is therefore important to identify and assess the hazards posed by various fishes, such as venomous and poisonous fishes or electric fishes, in each region and bring the results to public attention. In addition, at locations where hazards involving dangerous fish have been identified, procedures should be developed for treating any injuries sustained.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Harmful fishes
Chapter 2. Biting and Predator Fish Group
Chapter 3. Harmful fish group
Chapter 4. Electric Fishes

Part II Poisonous
Chapter 5. Poisonous Fishes

Part III Venomous fishes
Chapter 6. Icthyocrinotoxic Fishes

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Biography

Laith A. Jawad obtained a degree (MSc) in fish taxonomy from the Zoology Department, University of Bristol, UK, in 1980. He continued as fish taxonomist at Basrah University, Iraq, where he worked for more than 20 years before he immigrated to New Zealand in 1997. During this time, he started the biochemical taxonomy of fishes of Iraq and published over 560 scientific papers and book reviews in leading scientific journals. He is the author and co-author of several textbooks in biology published in Arabic. Recently, he contributed five chapters to a book about coastal fishes, Coastal Fishes: Habitat, Behavior and Conservation (Nova Publishers). He also wrote a book: Dangerous Fishes of the Eastern and Southern Arabian Peninsula (Springer). He has edited two books for Springer: The Arabian Seas: Biodiversity, Environment Challenges and Conservation Measures; and Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth.

He served as a fish biodiversity expert and consultant at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Oman for the period 2008-2012 during which he co-authored two papers describing a new fish species from the Omani waters and reported over 80 fish species as a new record to the Omani waters. He authored a guide to the fishes of the southern coasts of Oman, which will be published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Oman. He also published over 80 papers on fish fauna of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. In 2013, he broadened his scientific contact and started to collaborate with over 50 scientists from more than 40 countries around the world in research dealing with different aspects of fish taxonomy and ichthyology.