"The book covers fishery assessments, habitat and community manipulations, and common practices for managing stream, river, lake, and anadromous fisheries. Chapters on history; ecosystem management; management processes; communications with the public; introduced, undesirable, and endangered species; and the legal and regulatory frameworks provide the context for modern fisheries management." From fisheries.org.

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Designed for beginning-level readers who have not yet completed more technical coursework in math and science, this book introduces the breadth of the fisheries conservation and management process--rather than the depths and details of specific fisheries conservation and management settings. It provides a broad background--including basic information on fish, their habitats, and people who fish for them; provides numerous examples of both successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses of particular conservation or management strategies and programs (See Chs. 8, 12); and focuses on the laws that govern the management process and management activities--(i.e., regulating harvest, the use of hatcheries in fisheries management, habitat- related management) and on the types of management and conservation activities that are used.

In 2009, inland fisheries produced some 10 million tonnes of fish. Despite their importance to rural communities, especially in the least-developed countries, little attention has been paid to this sector in recent years. As a result, there is a deficit in management of the fisheries and also an increasing threat to freshwater by a number of non-fishery users of the aquatic resource. As part of an effort to raise awareness of the problems facing inland fisheries and to examine more closely the various issues, this document reviews four of the world's best-documented inland fisheries: the Amazon, Lake Constance, the Mekong and Lake Victoria. These represent two lake fisheries and two river fisheries drawn from a wide geographical sample - Africa, Asia, South America and Europe. This technical paper draws conclusions from the four case studies and more general experience as to some of the main issues facing inland fisheries. Inland fishery statistics are generally are very poor, so knowledge of the actual contribution of the sector to food security is not known. Nevertheless, inland fisheries employ about 56 million people directly and indirectly. The state of the stocks of fish in many fisheries is not known because of the low level of research across the many rivers and lakes. However, it is understood that, in many cases, the main driver of the fish assemblages is not the way in which the fishery is managed but rather the state of the environment as acted upon by other human uses. This means that mechanisms are needed to improve both management of fisheries through forms of comanagement and collaboration at the national and international level between agencies responsible for the management of the aquatic resource in general.

The major objective of the book was to promote better understanding of how various factors must fit together for successful implementation of inland fisheries enhancement programmes. Accordingly, the papers span a broad range of topics: technical, socio-economic, cultural and administrative. Techniques, geographic constraints, problems of information gathering and monitoring, and genetics are addressed. Because of its relative importance as an enhancement technique, stocking received much attention; areas discussed include strategies, modelling and prediction of results, health management and fitness of stocked fish as well as stocking experiences by type of water body. Cage culture: its importance, promotion through extension and limitations is also considered. Other paper cover social and economic benefits and their distribution, institutions and self and participatory management. Country reviews dealing very broadly with enhancements are also included. Contents Chapter 1: An Evaluation of Present Techniques for the Enhancement of Fisheries by R L Welcomme & D M Bartley, Chapter 2: Geography and Constraints on Inland Fishery Enhancements by James McDaid Kapetsky, Chapter 3: Review of the Administration and of Benefits from Fishery Enhancements in Australia by T Petr, Chapter 4: Inland Fishery Management and Enhancement in Cambodia by Nao Thuok, Chapter 5: Reservoir Stocking in Latin America: An Evaluation by Rolando Quiros, Chapter 6: An Appraisal of Stocking Strategies in the Light of Developing Country Constraints by Ian G Cowx, Chapter 7: How Predictable is the Outcome of Stocking? by Kai Lorenzen & Caroline J Garaway, Chapter 8: Review of Stock Enhancement in the Floodplains of Bangladesh by A I Payne & V Cowan, Chapter 9: Optimising Stocking Density of Carp Fingerlings Through Modelling of the Carp Yield in Relationto Average Water Transparency in Enhanced Fisheries in Semi-Enclosed Water Bodies in Western Bangladesh by M Rezaul Hazan & Hans A J Middendorp, Chapter 10: Current Methods and Constraints for Monitoring Production from Inland Capture Fisheries and Aquaculture by K J Rana, R Grainger & Adele Crispoldi-Hotta, Chapter 11: Obtaining Basic Information for the Enhancement of Small Water Body Fisheries: A Regional Project Viewpoint by L Verheust, Chapter 12: Genetical Asepcts of Fisheries Enhancement by D O F Skibinski, Chapter 13: Practical Aspects of Selection and Fitness of Stocked Fish by David J Penman & B J McAndrew, Chapter 14: Health Managment in Stocked Fisheries by R Wootten, Chapter 15: Implementation of Extension for Net-Cage Aquaculture in Indonesian Reservoirs: Pitfalls and Prospects by Sutandar Zainal & Pepen Effendi, Chapter 16: The Development of Cage Culture and Its Role of Fishery Enhancement in China by Baotong Hu & Yeping Liu, Chapter 17: Cage Culture: Limitations in Lakes and Reservoirs by Malcolm C M B & J Alan Stewart, Chapter 18: Fisheries Extension in Small Water Boday Fisheries in Zimbawe by N Songore, Chapter 19: An Assessment of the Economic Benefits from Stocking Seasonal Floodplains in Bengladesh by Liaquat Ali & Md Zahirul Islam, Chapter 20: Social and Economic Aspects of Reservoirs Enhancement in Kerala Reservoirs by D M Peters & C Feustel, Chapter 21: Social Economic and Cultural Aspects in Implementing Inland Fishery Enhancements in the Philippines by Catalion R Dela Cruz, Chapter 22: Open Water Stocking in Bangladesh: Experiences from the Third Fisheries Project by I Ahmad, S J R Bland, C R Price & R Kershaw, Chapter 23: Social and Distributional Issues in Open Water Fisheries Management in Banglades by Paul M Thompson & Md M Hossain, Chapter 24: Enhancement of Inland Fisheries in Nigeria: The Institutional Context Provided by Traditional and Modern Systems of Fisheries Management by A E Neiland & B M B Ladu, Chapter 25: Establishing Fishers Groups for Self-Management of Enhanced Fisheries in Semi-Closed Water Bodies in Western Bangladesh: The Experience of the Oxbow Lakes Small Scale Fisherman Project (OLP-II) by Niaz A Apu & H A J Middendorp, Chapter 26: Status and Prospects of Participatory Fisheries Management Programmes in Malawi by U F Scholtx, F J Njaya, S Chimatiro, M Hummel, S Donda & B J Mkoko, Chapter 27: Participatory Management of Reservoir Fisheries in North-Eastern Brazil by Frances Ivo Barbosa & Wolf D Hartmann, Chapter 28: Inland Fisheries Enhancement Implementation Criteria: Are Common Measures Attainable? A Consultation Restrospective by P A Siri & A F Born.