Aquaculture is the most environmentally sustainable means to feed the population boom that threatens the planet. Will government allow it to do this critically important job?
“Catfish Days” covers the catfish farming industry’s rough and tumble early years, before pushing into the rich Mississippi Delta and Black Belt region, and beyond.
Mike McCall
2016
256 pages including a 16-page photo insert
ISBN:978-0-692-77375-
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Farmed sea bass and sea bream are high-value fish, making significant contributions to the economies of many countries. This important book gives particular emphasis to rapid diagnosis and response to the most dangerous pathologies, which can cause severe economic losses in affected fish farms. This book will be an essential purchase for fish farm operatives and managers, veterinarians, fish health managers and inspectors, consultants, fish pathologists, microbiologists, and parasitologists. By Pierpaolo Patarnello, Niccolo Vendramin HB (spiral) ISBN: 9781910455791
Largemouth Bass Aquaculture is an important resource for those working in aquaculture, including fish farm operatives and managers, veterinarians and fish health managers, inspectors and consultants. Personnel within companies supplying the aquaculture industry with feed, technical equipment and pharmaceuticals will find a wealth of useful information within this book. Libraries in all universities and establishments teaching and researching aquaculture, fish biology, ichthyology, fisheries, aquatic sciences and veterinary studies should have copies of this comprehensive book on their shelves.
Aquaculture is an increasingly diverse industry with an ever-growing number of species cultured and production systems available to professionals. A basic understanding of production systems is vital to the successful practice of aquaculture. Aquaculture Production Systems provides a valuable survey of key production systems that will allow the reader to better understand how aquaculture depends upon and interacts with its environment.
Edited by: James H. Tidwell; Hardcover, 421 pages; 2012
The Atlantic salmon is one of the most prized and exploited species worldwide, being at the centre of a massive sports fishing industry and increasingly as the major farmed species in many countries worldwide.
Edited By: Øystein Aas, Anders Klemetsen, Sigurd Einum, Jostein Skurdal
Understanding fish behavior in relation to capture processes in marine fisheries is of fundamental importance to reducing bycatch and discards, and to enhancing marine fisheries conservation efforts. By: Pingguo He Hardcover, 392 pages 2010 978-0-8138-1536-7
Biofouling (the colonisation of an interface by a diverse array of organisms) is almost always a problem where it occurs, as it negatively affects surfaces, the materials that they are made from and the structures that they form, and can even destroy them.
It has been over 12 years since the last major book covering freshwater crayfish was published. This new book gathers together the new information for the first time and is essential reading for anyone involved in the biology or exploitation of these important animals.