Marine Invertebrate Fisheries: Their Assessment and Management

ISBN-13: 9780471832379 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 768 str.

John F. Caddy

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Marine invertebrate resources are widely exploited worldwide, and they are important to the economies of both developed and developing nations. This comprehensive sourcebook provides the foundation for a resource management strategy that ensures consistent, abundant annual harvests, while maintaining stable invertebrate populations. It examines the dynamics of some 30 invertebrate populations, with reference to the ecological, social, and economic implications of resource management.

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Partial table of contents:

CRUSTACEAN FISHERIES.

Antarctic Krill Fisheries: Potential Resources and Ecological Concerns (D. Sahrhage).

Fisheries for Northern Shrimp (Pandalus Borealis) in the Northwest Atlantic from Greenland to the Gulf of Maine (D. Parsons & J. Frechette).

Resource Assessment and Management Perspectives on the Penaeid Prawn Fisheries of Western Australia (J. Penn, et al.).

The West Australian Rock Lobster Fishery: Research for Management (B. Phillips & R. Brown).

Northwest Atlantic Snow Crab Fisheries: Lessons in Research and Management (R. Bailey & R. Einer).

The Management of Coastal Penaeid Shrimp Fisheries (S. Garcia).

MOLLUSCAN AND OTHER INVERTEBRATE HARVESTS.

The California Abalone Fishery: Production, Ecological Interactions and Prospects for the Future (M. Tegner).

Conservation and Management of Queen Conch (Strombus Gigas).

Fisheries in the Caribbean (C. Berg & D. Olsen).

The Chesapeake Bay Oyster Fishery: Traditional Management Practices (V. Kennedy).

Clam Fisheries with Hydraulic Dredges in the Adriatic Sea (C. Froglia).

Fisheries for Giant Clams (Tridacnidae: Bivalvia) and Prospects for Stock Enhancement (J. Munro).

A Perspective on the Population Dynamics and Assessment of Scallop Fisheries, with Special Reference to the Sea Scallop, Placopecten Magellanicus Gmelin (J. Caddy).

Managing an International Multispecies Fishery: The Saharan Trawl Fishery for Cephalopods (J. de Laguna).

Forecasting Yield and Abundance of Exploited Invertebrates (M. Fogarty).

Index.

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About the editor John F. Caddy has been actively involved in fisheries research and its application to managing fisheries since he completed his doctoral research on the ecology of an estuarine shellfish at the University of London twenty years ago. Much of his professional career with the Government of Canada was concerned with the population dynamics of marine invertebrates, and he is the author of numerous scientific papers on this subject. He is currently employed as Senior Fishery Resource Officer in the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome, and permission from the Organization to undertake this work is gratefully acknowledged. In his present position, he has been able to draw upon his experience in a wide range of national and international fisheries in selected chapters that illustrate the main research approaches currently used in invertebrate fisheries today.

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