Aquaculture and fish-farming

Applications of Seaweeds in Food and Nutrition provides an overview on the cultural, biological and engineering dimensions relating to seaweed as a food.

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) employs many fishery scientists with diverse skills.

The book presents updated information on the cryopreservation of semen, embryos, germ cells and ovarian follicles of neotropical fish from South America.

This book is a concise informative elucidation of all aspects of reproduction and development in annelids covering from arenicola to tubifex.

In the second edition of this fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including: Foraging skills Predator recognition Social organisation and learning Welfare and pain Three new chapters covering fish personality, lateralisation, and fish cognition and fish welfare, have been added to this fully revised and expanded second edition.

Correct nutrition in farmed animals is essential to healthy stock and an economically sustainable high yield.

This new volume of The Shrimp Book is complementary to the first, bringing together new knowledge, new technologies, new perspectives and new ideas from 98 international authors, from both academia and industry.

At an increasingly global scale, aquatic scientists are heavily entrenched in understanding the fate of marine ecosystems in the face of human-altered environments.

Fish are classified in several classes by which its study becomes easier.

Taking a disease-based approach, Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection focuses on the pathobiology of and protective strategies against the most common, major microbial pathogens of economically important marine and freshwater fish.

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.

Part documentary, part reality-television, the story of the Deadliest Catchs Alaskan crab fishermen risking their lives in the Bering Sea to make a buck and feed their families has captivated the world.

Writing for a high-quality scientific aquaculture publication is challenging, and many students and early career aquaculture scientists find the task daunting.

This book is a guide specifically for Early Career Researchers on how to publish in the Biological Sciences, whether that be your first manuscript or if you're already experienced - there's something for everyone.

This book recounts the habits of many interesting and unusual exceptions to the rule that insects are typically terrestrial forms of life.

Fish and shrimp producing industries generate huge amounts of wastes in form of viscera, scales, waste water, etc.

This book provides the latest comprehensive methods for isolation and other novel techniques for marine product development.

Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, Second Edition provides thorough, yet concise descriptions of viral, bacterial, fungal, parasitic and noninfectious diseases in an exhaustive number of fish species.

The first comprehensive volume exclusively on marine cone snails, this book provides descriptions of over 100 species of hazardous marine snails along with their biological and ecological characteristics; the characteristics of conotoxins; information on cone snail injuries and their treatment along with prevention measures; and the therapeutic and medicinal value of conotoxins, including as a powerful nonaddictive painkiller, an epilepsy drug, and more.

This comprehensive, up-to-date text delivers the latest must-have information on species new to aquaculture and documents the most important technological innovations of the past decade.

This book provides an in-depth overview of marine greens and their environmental and biotechnological applications.

This book clearly identifies nearly 170 families of fishes through the use of high-quality illustrations and includes an accurate account of selected members of that particular fish family, as well as a distribution map and accompanying commentary on classification, distribution, and diversity.

Published in Cooperation with THE UNITED STATES AQUACULTURE SOCIETY The rapid growth of aquaculture worldwide and domestically has caused concerns over social and environmental impacts.

Zooplankton is a major work of reference for researchers in plankton biology, physiology and behavior, which combines behavioral and psychological approaches to the study of plankton on present and interdisciplinary investigation of sensory processes in pelagic environments.

This volume on medicinal foods from the sea narrates the bioactive principles of various marine floral (vertebrate and Invertebrate), faunal (Macro and Micro algal) and microbial sources.

Advances in underwater exploration, in situ observation of fish populations, as well as the development of cutting-edge technologies, provide modern insights into behaviors and strategies of fish, whose cognitive abilities have long been underestimated and undervalued.

The tropical environment is unique due to its geographic location, climatic features, intense solar radiation, high temperature, heavy precipitation, less seasonal variation, enhanced food and productivity, faster metabolism, ecological dynamics and co-evolutionary processes that favor niches for specialized species.

This book explores the interconnections of internal phosphorus loading, cyanobacteria, and climate change and their role in determining water quality in freshwater.

This book is dedicated to the Silver Bream, a fish too long neglected by anglers, wildlife enthusiasts and science.

Inland Fish Marketing in India covers all aspects of this important subject.

Fish are classified in several classes by which its study becomes easier.

First published in 1984.

In the sixteen years since the last edition of Von Brant s classic work was published, fishing and fisheries have undergone vast changes.

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

Aquatic Ecotoxicology: Advancing Tools for Dealing with Emerging Risks presents a thorough look at recent advances in aquatic ecotoxicology and their application in assessing the risk of well-known and emerging environmental contaminants.

Ideal for professionals and general readers alike, this book covers a Iar ge number of scientific terms in fisheries, their particular meanings and explanations in a succinct and lucid manner.

The international Encyclopaedia of Fishes and Fishery Culture comprises a set of seven volume dealing with the complete aspects of fishes and fishery culture fives a comprehensive overview of the fishery science and also offers diverse information on the subject of fishery culture to make the readers upo date with the latest developments in this field where scientific information has not only been fast but enormousness too in the last deaden It begins by emphasizing the abundance and diversity of fishes and the contraction environments in which they live Biological interrelationships are fully discussed and fishes with features of special interest are highlighted whether they are economically significant or not

This book is intended as a resource for students and researchers interested in developmental biology and physiology and specifically addresses the larval stages of fish.

This study of the systems framework of the marine foods industry in India offers an intensive analysis of the marine fishery system in India : Its present status and future potential, its subsystems, resources and technological parameters, and the possible methods for the resolution of conflicts among the diverse interest groups involved.

The animals loosely termed fish constitute more than half of all known vertebrate species.

Recent Advances in Aquaculture Microbial Technology emphasizes various topics on microbiology related technology for aquaculture development and discusses different types of microbiological applications, thus serving as an all-inclusive reference which consolidates microbial technologies adopted in the field.

The intake of food by fishes is an area of study that is of great importance to the applied sciences of fisheries and aquaculture for a number of reasons.

This exciting new book grew out of an international symposium held at FAO, Rome in July 2008, but it is not just a collection of papers from that symposium.

Research in modern experimental and theoretical population genetics has been strengthened by advances in molecular techniques for the analysis of genetic variability.

This book is the first to report that research in allogenics/xenogenics has conclusively shown that fishes have retained bisexual potency even after sexual maturity and spermiation.

The present title is a comprehensive uptodate work on the theme, an indispensable text meeting complete requirement of undergraduate and post-graduate students of Zoology.

The 26 recognized minor phyla comprise aberrant clades, as most of them terminate as blind offshoots.

Roughly half the seafood we eat comes from farms, and yet many consumers remain hesitant, even resistant, to buying farmed fish.