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Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations
Springer 2011; US$ 179.99Reef fish spawning aggregations, ranging from small groups to many tens of thousands of individuals, are spectacular but poorly known natural phenomena whereby fish assemble at specific times and locations to spawn. For some species these large groups may be the only form of reproduction, the high fish numbers briefly giving a false impression of stability... more...
Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes
University of California Press 2013; US$ 75.00The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes is the only textbook to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and integrated view of the ecological and evolutionary concepts, principles,... more...
Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes
CRC Press 2005; US$ 449.00The Family Serranidae comprises some of the most valuable commercial and recreational marine fishes in the world. The most notable as food fishes are the groupers and black sea basses. Most serranid species are tropical, but several occur in temperate waters, and a few enter freshwater. The family is very large, with about 62 genera and 449 species... more...
Reproductive Biology and Early Life History of Fishes in the Ohio River Drainage, Volume 5
CRC Press 2006; US$ 165.95This seven-volume series is the most extensive treatise on early life histories of the freshwater fishes of North America. It represents the state-of-the-art in fishery biology and provides a systematic approach to the study of early life histories of all the fishes in this region. Each volume contains distinguishing characteristics and a pictorial... more...
Age and Growth of Chondrichthyan Fishes
Springer 2007; US$ 149.99Shark conservation and management is often hindered by a lack of basic biological information for most species. This volume is a collection of papers on several of the topics that include hard parts (eg caudal thorns) for assessments of age, techniques for validation (eg bomb radiocarbon) and reexaminations of previous age and growth models. more...
Migratory Fishes of South America
International Development Research Centre 2004; US$ 19.99Fish species that migrate within the great rivers of South America support important local fisheries but are little known outside their native range. This book represents the first collection of the work of local scientific experts on these remarkable fish. The authors cover the Upper Paraná, Paraguay-Paraná, Uruguay and São Francisco... more...
Behavior of Marine Fishes
Wiley 2010; US$ 229.95Understanding 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 while reducing the catch of unwanted... more...
Eels
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99?This is a delightful work with the urgency of a good detective story.? ?Thomas McGuane ?I loved it! A beautiful adventure story of one of the most wide-spread and least-known but ecologically important fish.? ?Bernd Heinrich, author of Summer World Famous for his deeply informed, compulsively readable books on trout, writer-painter James Prosek... more...
Demon Fish
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species can survive. In this eye-opening adventure... more...









