Provides the basic concepts and techniques required to rear warmwater animals in both fresh and marine environments and under controlled or semi-controlled conditions. Utilizes examples from various species to demonstrate how specific general principles can be applied throughout the field. Focuses on commercially important species that are being or can be reared in the United States. The concepts can also be applied to animals reared for laboratory use. Includes a comprehensive bibliography to the literature.

Captive Seawater Fishes: Science and Technology Stephen Spotte "The book is clearly a labor of love, and one must admire the author's boundless enthusiasm and breadth of scholarship." —New Scientist A seamlessly clear treatise on the science and technology of maintaining seawater fishes for purposes of aquaculture and public exhibition. Captive Seawater Fishes is the first book to bring together in one volume the disciplines of seawater chemistry, process engineering, and fish physiology, behavior, nutrition, and health. Richly illustrating the interplay between living fishes and the chemical and sensory stimuli of their environment, the book details: chemical processes controlling carbonate stability in seawater; the effect of captivity on physiological processes; sensory processes of fishes, including vision, hearing, and electroreception; diseases of seawater fishes and treatment methods; and more. 1991 (0-471-54554-6) 976 pp. Surveys of Fisheries Resources Donald R. Gunderson The intensive exploitation of fisheries resources has heightened the reliance in the industry on statistical surveying as a means of monitoring the abundance and age composition of existing fish reserves. Here is the first comprehensive look at the unique challenges and problems of fisheries surveying. Covering everything from survey design, bottom trawl surveys, acoustic surveys, to egg and larval surveys and direct counts, as well as the assumptions and limitations surrounding each method, the book is an exhaustive, yet practical guide to designing accurate, cost-effective fisheries surveys. 1993 (0-471-54735-2) 256 pp. Aquatic Pollution: An Introductory Text, Second Edition Edward A. Laws Regarded as the most complete introduction available on the subject, Aquatic Pollution details the ecological principles and toxicological fundamentals behind the phenomenon as well as the latest information on the factors affecting our polluted aquatic environment. Featuring case studies and specific examples, the book systematically examines such problems as urban runoff, sewage disposal, thermal pollution, nutrient loading, industrial wastewater discharges, and oil pollution. The new Second Edition includes three new chapters on groundwater pollution. acid rain, and plastics in the sea, as well as updated and expanded information on eutrophication, pathogens in water supplies, radioactive waste disposal, toxic metals, and pesticide use. 1993 (0-471-58883-0) 611 pp.

The book Freshwater Fish Culture will be indispensable source of information for all those actively engaged in the study of freshwater fish culture and other related topics. It also includes current information for students, research workers, fishery officers, entrepreneur, progressive fish culturists, and farm managers concerned with fish production from freshwater resources. The book shall be of great help to the undergraduate and post-graduate students of Fisheries Science. The main aim of this publication is to help pisciculturists to keep abreast of some informations in different aspects of freshwater fish culture. The book incorporates subject materials on the progress made so far in the field of fisheries research and development as well as fast growing science of freshwater fish culture. The different chapters of the book have been described in a lucid manner and as brief as possible to grasp the subject materials in perspective. This treatise is intended primarily for students and researchers in fish culture, and it gives widest perception. Each chapter has been so designed to be useful to readers in the field of Fisheries Science. This book will, perhaps be well received in the Fisheries College, Universities, Private and Public Organisations where training, teaching, and extension of freshwater fish culture is undertaken. Contents Chapter 1: Water and soil around fish; Chapter 2: Nutrient carriers used in fish culture; Chapter 3: Pond and lake ecosystems; Chapter 4: Aquatic plants in pond and lake environments; Chapter 5: Actions of pond soil organisms; Chapter 7: Micro-organisms in relation to fish culture ecosystem; Chapter 8: Natural food in fish ponds; Chapter 9: Artificial feed in fish culture; Chapter 10: Management of water in fish culture; Chapter 11: Management techniques in fish culture; Chapter 12: Water, soil and chemical pollution; Chapter 13: Acidity and alkalinity in fish culture ecosystem; Chapter 14: Activities of inland fisheries sector: Indian scenario; Chapter 15: Principles of management in fisheries sector; Chapter 16: Nutrient recycling through organic wastes and wastewater in fish culture; Chapter 17: Role of nitrogen fertilizers in fish culture; Chapter 18: Role of phosphorus fertilizers in fish culture; Chapter 19: Global inland capture fisheries and freshwater fish culture; Chapter 20: Carp culture in India; Chapter 21: Composite fish culture; Chapter 22: Water and the world s fish supply as food.