Book Description
The first edition of this book on diagnosis and control of diseases in North American marine aquaculture was published in 1977, with the promise that the material would be updated frequently, in view of the rapid expansion of marine aquaculture and the importance of disease control to successful production.Now, ten years later, the promised update has finally been prepared, incorporating new information that has been published in the intervening time.

The concept and format of the book remain the same - to present information on disease diagnosis and control in a concise standard format, emphasising those diseases which affect survival of cultured populations. Because of the amount of new material, many new sections have been added, and some of the previous sections have been rewritten entirely or almost so.This is particularly true of the section on penaeid shrimp, which now contains current descriptions of 28 diseases.

As with the original edition, many disease specialists have contributed individually authored sections in their areas of expertise.The editors have authored some of the major sections and have added introductory material, but the work represents a genuine group effort.

The volume will be essential reading for all those involved in the diagnosis and control of disease in aquacultured species throughout the world, and indeed for aquaculturists in general. ... Read more

Book Description
The primary purpose of this book is to provide a range of tested BASIC programs, which are useful for solving some of the problems frequently encountered in fisheries science and related resource assessment disciplines.Taken together, the ``package'' of programs may be considered to be a system, hence the name Fisheries Science Applications Systems (FSAS) which has been adopted as the title of the package.

In the first chapter, an overview of the FSAS system and its components is presented.The second chapter is a tutorial on data entry, data editing, and the use of a typical application program.The remaining text summarizes each application program, describing the analyses it performs and providing citations to the fisheries literature.

The programs are considered to be of potential value to the practicing fisheries scientist who has access to a personal computer.In addition, they will be of value to fisheries scientists and managers ... Read more

Book Description
This volume contains 31 papers presented in three theme sessionsby fisheries scientists from around the world at a Department ofFisheries and Oceans' workshop in 1991. Papers presented address theuse, strengths, and weaknesses of commonly-used biological referencepoints; methods for identifying and quantifying uncertaintiesassociated with using various reference points; and alternativemanagement strategies or suggested strategies for dealing with novelsituations. Answers to specific questions relating to fisheriesmanagement, compiled by four working groups at the workshop, areincluded, as well as a list of participants. ... Read more

Book Description
Daniel Pauly is the most widely cited fisheries scientist ofhis generation. On the Sex of Fish and the Gender of Scientistscomprisesan edited and updated collection of 27 of Daniel Pauly'sessays,spanning a great range of exciting and sometimescontroversialtopics, many of them breaking new scientific ground. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

A tall poppy speaks
On the Sex of Fish and the Gender of Scientists: A collection of essays in fisheries science.

By Daniel Pauly. 1994
London: Chapman & Hall. Fish and Fisheries Series 14.
ISBN 0 412 595400

Is Daniel Pauly the Steven Jay Gould of the fisheries world, as claimed by his colleague Tony Pitcher? On the evidence of this slim volume of clippings, gleaned mostly from ICLARM journals, the answer must be no. Nevertheless, despite the lack of coherence in these miscellaneous musings, there is certainly food for thought, and considerable promise that Daniel Pauly may yet mature into the Steven Jay Gould (or even the Germaine Greer) of the fisheries world.

Those who know him are aware that Pauly is not a man to mince words, particularly when dealing with other human beings, and the occasionally scathing reviews and criticisms contained in this book can be highly entertaining. Those who know him are also aware that Daniel is not a man of underweening ego. Who else but Daniel Pauly would write articles about the frequency of his reprint requests and citations? And who else but Daniel Pauly would complain that people don't publish enough of their original raw data (Essay 26: "Data-rich books") for him to use in his own work (Essay 19: "On using other people's data").

However, there is no room for modesty if you are going to change the world, and there is no denying that Pauly is a juggernaut when it comes to promoting concepts. He is the master of the eye-catching phrase, which is almost as beneficial to one's citation count as authoring new methodology. How many times did you see the phrase "Malthusian overfishing (Pauly 1994)" a few years ago? His promotion of length-based stock assessment methods using ELEFAN was legendary, although it is a pity that the limitations of ELEFAN were not as heavily promoted in the beginning, particularly its simplistic method of identifying histogram peaks through running-average subtraction, and lack of any way of assessing the statistical significance of results. But hell, these are just the teething troubles that any new technology suffers, and Bill Gates had no compunction in releasing the bug-ridden first release of Windows 3.0 on the unsuspecting public.

Pauly seems to feel that confidence in one's results is a matter more of personality than statistics. In Essay 2: "Concepts that work", he berates John Gulland for having warned scientists in the tropics about using estimates for mortality that have no confidence intervals around them, simply because some temperate fishery stock assessments have also used similar "unconfident" estimates. In this essay, Pauly seems to have great confidence that the length-based estimation of mortality is now an exact science, but paradoxically feels that it is almost impossible to get a handle on recruitment. Both processes are of courseequally well (or poorly) described by looking at opposite ends of the length-frequency histogram.

outstanding text but...
This is a very good narrative from the 'Stephen Jay Gould of Fisheries' but in the end it is just exactly a collection of essays and in no way merits the price tag that has been hung on it.Read it at the library if you can convince them to buy it. ... Read more

Book Description
A comprehensive review of current knowledge of the deep-waterfishes of the North Atlantic and their exploitation. Individualcountries and research institutions have carried out their owninvestigations and surveys in the past, but these results have rarelybeen coordinated, nor has there been a proper sharing of results anddata. But there is a need to assess the total size of the deep-waterstocks and the extent to which they can safely be exploited. The bookalso contains a number of papers describing present and past researchand the present exploitation of resources, together with papers on thetechnical problems encountered in capturing and processing thesefishes. An assessment of the requirements for future research ispresented. ... Read more