Fisheries category: 219 books
by Debabrata Das
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book based on Environment and Ecology based aspects of inland fisheries and fully on applied sciences. As you know a book may be a friend when a true friendship is absent and hence author has written this book with mild intension to keep documentary evidences in Fisheries Information and Biotechnology...
World Fisheries
A Social-Ecological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
This exciting new book grew out of an international symposium held at FAO, Rome in July 2008, but it is not just a collection of papers from that symposium. Rather, the publication brings together work on social-ecological marine research that cuts across disciplines, identifies key common elements...
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between...
by Elizabeth Gosling
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Marine Bivalve Molluscs is a comprehensive and thoroughly updated second edition of Bivalve Molluscs, covering all major aspects of this important class of invertebrates. As well as being an important class biologically and ecologically, many of the bivalves are fished and cultured commercially (e.g....
by Erica Vidal
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Advances in Cephalopod Science: Biology, Ecology, Cultivation and Fisheries—volume 67 in the Advances in Marine Biology series—addresses major themes of growing research interest in the field of cephalopod research. The book is composed of four chapters incorporating the latest advances in biology,...
by Magnus L. Johnson, Jane Sandell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Advances in Marine Biology has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963--over 40 years of outstanding coverage! The series is well known for its excellent reviews and editing. Now edited by Michael Lesser (University of New Hampshire, USA) with an...
Hakes
Biology and Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The species of hake, making up the genus Merluccius, are commercially important and currently largely over exploited, with many stocks badly depleted and showing only limited signs of recovery.
From the end of the 1990s, concepts such as sustainability, ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries...
Transforming the Fisheries
Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
There is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry. What do these seemingly contradictory ideas of natural...
The Common Wealth in Ocean Fisheries
Some Problems of Growth and Economic Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
By examining international fishery resources from a primarily economic and political viewpoint, this book highlights the common property aspects of fisheries, physical productivity of the ocean, supply and demand, and the legal and institutional framework within which the fisheries industry operates. Originally published in 1966
Behavior of Marine Fishes
Capture Processes and Conservation Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Understanding fish behavior in relation to capture processes in marine fisheries is of fundamental importance to reducing bycatch and discards, and to enhancing marine fisheries conservation efforts. A thorough understanding of this allows commercial fishers to more effectively capture target species...
Tarpons
Biology, Ecology, Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Stephen Spotte, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Tarpons arose from an ancient lineage, and just two species exist today, confined to the tropics and subtropics: Megalops atlanticus in the western and eastern Atlantic and Megalops cyprinoides distributed widely across the Indo-West...
Salmon Lice
An Integrated Approach to Understanding Parasite Abundance and Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis is adapted to survive in hostile marine environments of the northern hemisphere, including an ability to parasitize several species of salmon. Salmonids are some of the most economically important and sought after fish for human consumption, and louse parasitism...
by Josep Lloret, Georgiy Shulman, R. Malcolm Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This important and informative new book outlines and discusses details of the basic principles and methods that are central to any study of fish condition, from a fish ecology and fisheries biology perspective. Condition and Health Indicators of Exploited Marine Fishes describes the potential capacities...
The Sunken Billions Revisited
Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This report updates previous studies that measured in economic terms the extent of biological losses attributable to overfishing globally. The new estimates assess these 'sunken billions' at $83 billion annually. The report further shows that a clear path can lead to the recovery of these considerable...