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...

Aquaculture is a rapidly growing, successful approach to improving diets by providing more high quality fish and shellfish protein. It is also an industry with major unresolved issues because of its negative impact on the environment. This book is a pioneering effort in the development of environmentally benign aquaculture methods.

The definitive guide to the study of fish

In this second edition of Ichthyology, readers will find a comprehensive resource. Starting with the basic definition of what fish are, where they live, and how they live, this in-depth text provides an ordered approach covering this branch of science in its entirety. Readers will discover the major groups of fishes, learn about basic fish anatomy, be introduced to issues of nutrition and growth, gain an understanding of fish locomotion, and much more. For those interested in the advancing in the field, the book also discusses...