Otoliths of North Sea Fish - Fish Identification key by means of otoliths and other hard parts

System requirements:

Windows: 32-bit (x86) processor, Windows XP/Vista/7.
This title is not compatible with 64-bit Windows systems.
Mac: PowerPC processor, Mac OS 8.6-9.2 or Mac OS X 10.1-10.4 (Classic).
This title is not compatible with Intel Macs. 

This identification guide covers fish remnants (otoliths, spines, pharyngeal bones and chewing pads) that are found in marine sediments and in stomach contents, faeces or regurgitates of marine predators of fish. The guide, produced by Alterra and the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, contains up-to-date information on these remnants of almost 100 fish species of the North Sea, Wadden Sea and adjacent fresh waters. This CD-ROM includes EM-photographs of otoliths and other hard parts, back-calculation rules that allow estimation of fish size and mass from these parts, and a fully hyperlinked database of the scientific literature on the fish species as prey-items of seabirds and marine mammals. This is an excellent source of information for marine ecologists, fishery biologists, geologists, environmentalists and students.