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Marine Protected Areasby Joachim Claudet
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 47.00Provides regional and global perspectives on the role of Marine Protected Areas in the restoration and conservation of biodiversity. more...
World Fisheries Resourcesby James R. Coull
Routledge 1993; US$ 200.00This 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...
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$ 260.00The 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. 2003; US$ 260.00A 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...
Salmon at the Edgeby Derek Mills
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 260.00Salmon at the Edge covers, in depth, the problems faced by wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout in estuaries and coastal zones, and in their early weeks at sea. The book also reflects the current precarious state of many migratory salmonid populations and the need for new approaches to a number of threats to these populations. Generated from papers given at the landmark Sixth Atlantic Salmon Symposium, held in Edinburgh, UK, Salmon at the Edge contains a huge wealth of information on such important topics as the impact of salmon farming, the behaviour of post-smolts in their early migration and their vulnerability to by-catch, and the use of nutrient enrichment and habitat enhancement to increase production of juvenile salmonids. With... more...