Management of Freshwater Fisheries
Jacques Arrignon
ISBN 978-1-57808-051-9; 1999; 598 pages; US $ 106.40      Buy Now

The book deals with fishes, with particular reference to a human activity, fishing, that can be a means of livelihood or a pastime.

In this edition, the result of more than forty years of experience in very diverse regions, Jacques ARRIGNON has collated essential information under three major headings:

. Ecological bases
. Fish farming
. Managing aquatic mediums

The tested data are presented in a clear and well-balanced manner, often with the help of tables, and illustrated with many sketches and photographs. A glossary and an index make this book a useful practical guide.

This book will be useful to professionals involved in the biology, management and protection of the aquatic medium: hydrobiologists, aquaculturists, fish farmers, technicians and fishing wardens.

Contents:
ECOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS
. Aquatic ecosystems (ecological approach, equatic ecosytems, ecological zoning, typology, fluvial hydrosystem, limnological aspects of lakes)
. Nature and dynamics of the components of a medium (terrestrial environment, water movements, water biotic components)
. Fish (morphology, anatomy, classification, elements of physiology, biology, and ethology)
. Investigations in the medium (general arrangements, elementary investigations, marking, sampling, detection, fish productivity, hydroecological study)

FISH BREEDING
. Improvement of natural spawning conditions (access to spawning areas, protection of spawning areas, improvements in spawning areas, artifical spawning beds)
. In situ hatcheries (incubation boxes, incubator cradles)
. Growth in a natural medium (hardiness of species, breeding mediums, improved extensive breeding)
. Induced breeding (cyprinids, percomorphs, esociculture, salmonids)
. Intensive fish culture (artificial reproduction of the trout, reproductive salmon, fertilization and incubation, hatching and rearing of fry, raising of summerlings, growth and mortality, introduction of salmon in the natural medium)
. Breeding of other fishes (raising the catfish european wels, raising the sturgeon, raising the eel, tropical fish culture)
. Health problems (investigation of causes, therapy, prevention)
. Suitability of mediums (classification, situation, development)
. Adverse effects (historical changes, adverse effects on the catchment area, adverse effects on the aquatic medium, pollution, estimation of water quality, organization for detection)

MANAGEMENT OF AQUATIC MEDIUMS
. Physical management (maintenance of the aquatic mediums, classification of ponds, creation of artifical mediums, correction of water courses, management of water course for migratory fishes)
. Intervention in the biological medium (amelioration of fish culture mediums, artifical equilibrium, Fish production)
. Economy of aquatic resources (development and management strategies of fish stocks, animal resource, suitability of the aquatic medium, management of fishery resources)

APPENDICES
. Formulae and programs (on the knowledge of the aquatic medium, on the fish populations, about water, harmful effects)


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