Covers marine waters of Hudson and James Bay, the arctic archipelago east to the centre of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, west to Yukon-Alaska border and the Canadian sector of the arctic north to the North Pole.

Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada is an accessible and up-to-date study on the diverse marine fish population existing in Canadian waters.

A list of 135 species of fish is presented for the marine waters of the Canadian Arctic, with Inuktitut, French, and English vernaculars and scientific names. Inuktitut names are listed for over 50 species of Canadian fish from Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Siberia. Thirty-eight marine and euryhaline families are included.