Recipes for all important seafoods including salmon, flounder, halibut, rockfish & cod are included in this book. There are also recipes for tuna, smelt, sturgeon, shad, dogfish, clams, oyster, scallop, mussels, abalone, crab, shrimp & crayfish. A helpful feature of the book is a 50-page section with close-up, detailed pictures illustrating how to fillet, steak & skin fish. A spiral, comb binding allows the book to lie flat for the cook's convenience in following the 300-plus recipes. There is a section on little known seafood delicacies, & another on miscellaneous seafood recipes. Instructions on how to hot & cold smoke fish are included.