Stock Assessment : Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small Scale Fisheries

ISBN-13: 9781566701518 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 544 str.

Vincent F. Gallucci;Saul B. Saila;Daniel J. Gustafson

Opis

Stock Assessment: Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small Scale Fisheries is a book about stock assessment as it is practiced. It focuses on applications for small scale or artisanal fisheries in developing countries, however it is not limited in applicability to tropical waters and should also be considered a resource for students of temperate fishery management problems. It incorporates a careful sample design, various mathematical models as a basis for predicting consequences for stock exploitation, and discusses the impact of exploitation on non-targeted species. This was a unique concept involving a collaborative effort between U.S. and host country scientists to address issues of regional and global concern through innovative research.
Unlike other books on stock assessment that show mathematical models, this is the only book of its kind that discusses how an assessment is carried out. It looks at the field as a whole and includes sampling, age determination and acoustics.
The book represents the culmination of a nine-year program financed by the United States Agency for International Development to provide new or improved methods of stock assessment for artisanal fisheries.

Recenzje

". . . an excellent text and should be on the shelves of all those involved with fish stocks per se, particularly the management of small-scale fisheries."
-Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Spis treści

Overview and BackgroundSize-Based Methods of Stock Assessment for Applications to Tropical Artisanal; FisheriesCoral Reef Fishery Sampling MethodsSampling Methods for Assessment of Tropical Fisheries in Developing CountriesThe Application of Some Acoustic Methods for the Assessment of Tropical Artisanal FisheriesAge Determination in Biology: A Perspective on Methods and Applications to Stock AssessmentThe Application of Time Series Analysis to Fisheries Population Assessment and ModelingEmpirical Methods and Models for Multispecies Stock AssessmentA System Science Approach to Fisheries Stock Assessment and ManagementReferencesAnnexesIndex

O autorze

Gallucci\, Vincent F.; Saila\, Saul B.; Gustafson\, Daniel J.; Rothschild\, Brian J.