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Freshwater Fishes of North-Eastern Australiaby Brad Pusey; Mark Kennard; Angela Arthington
CSIRO Publishing 2004; US$ 89.95The ecology, systematics, biogeography and management of the area's native fish. more...
Ecohydrologyby Derek Eamus; Tom Hatton; Peter Cook; Christine Colvin
CSIRO Publishing 2006; US$ 125.00Explains the links between vegetation using ecophysiological knowledge, and the movement, availability and location of water in Australian landscapes. more...
World Fisheries Resourcesby James R. Coull
Routledge 1993; US$ 210.00This provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of how this commodity is used, examining the various aspects of fishing resources from their biological basis through to marketing and consumption. more...
Bioenergetics Of Aquatic Animalsby A Lucas
CRC Press 1996; US$ 84.95This text applies bioenergetics to aquatic animals and explores its role in aquaculture and fisheries science. It seeks to provide a compact account of bioenergetics in aquaculture and clarify problems encountered in the areas of fisheries and more...
Geographic Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheriesby Vasilis D. Valavanis
CRC Press 2002; US$ 84.95Over the last two decades there has been increasing recognition that problems in Oceanography and Fisheries Sciences and related marine areas are nearly all manifest in the spatio-temporal domain. Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the natural framework for spatial data handling, are being recognised as a powerful tool with useful applications in marine sciences. This book provides a thorough examination of marine GIS applications that include a high variety of methods and sophisticated approaches in coastal, continental shelf, and deep ocean studies. It presents new innovative approaches of using GIS in the examination of the dynamic relations that characterize the marine world, including marine GIS macro routines for the development... more...
All Fishermen Are Liarsby Linda Greenlaw
Hyperion 2004; US$ 10.00Just before Christmas, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Dry Dock, a well-worn watering hole in Portland, Maine. Alden, the captain of Linda's first fishing expedition, has seen his share of mishaps and adventures at sea. When Linda shares memories of navigating her ship through one of the craziest storms she's ever seen, Alden quickly follows up with his own tales. Then other fishermen, who are sitting on the periphery attentively listening, decide to weigh in with yarns of their own. All Fishermen Are Liars brims with true stories of the most eccentric crew member, the funniest episode, the biggest fish, and the wildest night at sea. Denizens of the Dry Dock drift in and... more...
Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Loss in Thailandby Edward B. Barbier; John S. Bugas; Suthawan Sathirathai
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00There is increasing concern about the impact shrimp farming is having on mangrove swamps. Through case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors assess the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation. more...
Interactions Between Fish and Birdsby Ian G. Cowx
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 279.95The interactions between wild bird populations (many protected by law) and fish, particularly those under commercial culture or part of a fishery is subject of much controversy. Ecological, environmental and conservation pressures run alongside commercial pressures on exploited fish populations. This exciting book draws together contributions from all over the world to provide a fascinating insight into many case studies and conflicts in managed situations as well as looking at the overall ecology of such interactions in normal un-managed ecosystems. more...
The Eelby Frederich W. Tesch; John Thorpe; Ray J. White
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 275.00A strong demand for an English version of the third German Edition of this extremely important book paved the way for this excellent new translation, which contains much new information from over 500 publications, not covered by the previous English language edition. The Eel is the standard work on the species with chapters in the book covering body structure and functions, developmental stages and distribution of the eel species, post-larval ecology and behaviour, harvest and environmental relationships, fishing methods, eel culture, diseases, parasites and bodily damage, the world trade in eels and eel processing. Contributions are included from several world authorities including new information concerning genetic diversity in eel populations... more...
Recreational Fisheriesby Tony J. Pitcher; Chuck Hollingworth
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 245.00Recreational or sport fishing is important for three major reasons: economic (it is a multi-billion dollar world industry); social (it is embedded in the cultures of many nations; ecological (it affects the environment and food webs in many ways). Recreational Fisheries covers a range of methods, case studies and perspectives on the multidisciplinary evaluation of the benefits and costs of sports fisheries. Tony Pitcher and Charles Hollingworth, the editors of this landmark publication, have drawn together chapters from more than 30 contributors from North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa, providing a truly international perspective on a global industry. Contents include detailed assessments, evaluations and survey... more...









