Edited By: Bruce Phillips
ISBN: 978-0-470-67113-9
Hardcover, 488 pages
2013
Under the editorship of Bruce Phillips, the Second Edition of Lobsters: Biology, Management, Fisheries and Aquaculture delivers exhaustive coverage of these fascinating creatures, stretching from growth and development to management and conservation. A number of chapters from the First Edition covering Growth, Reproduction, Diseases, Behaviour, Nutrition, Larval and Post-Larval Ecology and Juvenile and Adult Ecology have been replaced by new chapters including Lobsters in Ecosystems, Genetics, Translocation, Climate Change, Ecolabelling of Lobsters, Casitas and Other Artificial Shelters, Systems to maximise Economic Benefits.. These new chapters reflect changes that are occurring in lobster management and new research developments brought on by social, climatic and economic changes.
As well as information from new research output, information in each chapter is also included on individual commercial Genera, including aspects of Species and distribution, Predators and diseases, Ecology and behaviour, Aquaculture and enhancement, Harvest of wild populations and their regulations, Management and conservation. The chapter on slipper lobsters has also been expanded to include Thenus and Ibacus species which are now subject to commercial fisheries. The changes that have occurred in some lobster fisheries, the new management arrangements in place, the status of stocks and the current economic and social situation of each fishery have also been covered and discussed in great detail.
Fisheries scientists, fisheries managers aquaculture personnel, aquatic and invertebrate biologists, physiologists, ecologists, marine biologists and environmental biologists will all find Lobsters Second Edition to be a vital source of reference. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where biological and life sciences and fisheries and aquaculture are studied and taught will find it an extremely valuable addition to their shelves.
Chapter 1 Lobsters as Part of Marine Ecosystems – A Review 1
Bruce F. Phillips, Richard A. Wahle and Trevor J. Ward
Chapter 2 Genetics of Wild and Captive Lobster Populations 36
W. Jason Kennington, Roy Melville-Smith and Oliver Berry
Chapter 3 Enhancement of Lobster Fisheries to Improve Yield and Value 64
Bridget S. Green, Caleb Gardner and Gro I. van der Meeren
Chapter 4 The Impact of Climate Change on Exploited Lobster Stocks 84
Nick Caputi, Simon de Lestang, Stuart Frusher and Richard A. Wahle
Chapter 5 Systems to Maximize Economic Benefits in Lobster Fisheries 113
Caleb Gardner, Sherry Larkin and Juan Carlos Seijo
Chapter 6 Lobster Ecolabelling 139
Trevor J Ward and Bruce F Phillips
Chapter 7 Essential Habitats for Panulirus Spiny Lobsters 186
Patricia Briones-Fourzán and Enrique Lozano-Álvarez
Chapter 8 Homarus 221
Richard A. Wahle, Kathleen M. Castro, Oliver Tully and J. Stanley Cobb
Chapter 9 Jasus and Sagmariasus Species 259
Andrew G. Jeffs, Caleb Gardner and Andy Cockcroft
Chapter 10 Panulirus Species 289
Bruce F. Phillips, Roy Melville-Smith Matthew C. Kay and Armando Vega-Velázquez
Chapter 11 Palinurus Species 326
Johan C. Groeneveld, Raquel Goñi and David Díaz
Chapter 12 Nephrops Species 357
Mike Bell, Ian Tuck and Helen Dobby
Chapter 13 Commercial Scyllarids 414
Ehud Spanier and Kari L. Lavalli
Chapter 14 Conclusions 467
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