Conservation of Fish and Shellfish Resources: Managing Diversity - Softcover

9780123909015: Conservation of Fish and Shellfish Resources: Managing Diversity

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0123909015 ISBN 13: 9780123909015

Publisher: Academic Press, 2012

Fish and shellfish comprise annually nearly 70-million tons of the world's edible animal protein. However, because of this demand, previously vast stocks have often been exhausted to the point of near extinction. The first book of its kind in the area of freshwater/marine biodiversity, this extensive work reviews the present status of genetic resource management, its needs and constraints, various intervening human factors such as pollution and overfishing, and problems posed by different species and life-styles. This discussion of the conservation of fish and shellfish resources is illustrated by four diverse groups: Atlantic salmon, cupped oysters, common and Chinese carp, and Nile tilapia. These results, produced by the collaboration of nine leading population and production geneticists, aquaculturists, and behavioral and developmental ecologists should become a fundamental resource useful to biologists, scientists and advisors exploring current issues in the fishery sciences.

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"Overall, the volume provides extensive references and will prove valuable for those dealing with issues of conservation of aquatic diversity." --THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

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