Fisheries Ecology

List of contents

Fish design plans and fish communities; world fisheries; the structure of fish populations in space and time; fish nutrition, growth and production; evolutionary effects of mortality; recruitment; prediction of fishery yields - surplus yield models; dynamic pool models and fishery management; fishery economics; fish farming; fisheries and the economy of man.

Summary

This work is concerned with the ecology of exploited fish populations. It takes a broad view of the subject, including a consideration of fish as elements in a delicately-balanced ecosystem. It also discusses the economics of fisheries in terms of a throughput of both energy and finance.

Product details

• Authors: Hart, P Hart, P. Hart, Paul Hart, T J Pitcher, T. Pitcher, T. J. Pitcher
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2009
• EAN: 9780412382604
• ISBN: 978-0-412-38260-4
• No. of pages: 414
• Weight: 585 g
• Illustrations: II, 414 p.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology