Describes how surface weather affects the environmental conditions and processes in the ocean's surface layers. Summarizes some practical knowledge of the weather's effects on fish availability and behavior. Examines the possible effects of climatic fluctuations on marine fishery resources and reviews several major historical changes in fisheries.

Marine Climate, Weather and Fisheries: The Effects of Weather and Climatic Changes On Fisheries and Ocean Resources

Science & Math

Laevastu, Taivo

Earth Sciences

wiley

The authors have based their experiences and results of ecosystems simulation in the Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Center in Seattle but its application is universal. They take a synthetic look at the total marine ecosystem showing ways of utilizing all accumulated knowledge about it and how to apply this knowledge in the quantitative simulation of the ecosystem for the evaluation of fishery resources and their management by modern methods. This therefore is a useful manual for ecosystem simulation, fisheries research and management, as well as a valuable textbook on the marine ecosystem and its processes.

Marine Fisheries Ecosystem: Its Quantitative Evaluation and Management

Biological Sciences

Fishing News Books Ltd

Fisheries oceanography deals with those aspects of oceanography which can be of practical use in commercial fishing, fisheries management and fisheries ecology. So this book summarizes in concise and easily read form, the principal results of research in fisheries oceanography and marine fish ecology during the last eight decades. It describes the influence of various environmental conditions such as temperature and currents, on fish behaviour and on fishery resources. One of the author's main objectives is to show how the results of research can benefit fishing and the book will be of value to skippers, fisheries managers, and administrators as well as to fisheries biologists and students.

Fisheries Oceanography and Ecology

Many people think that changes in fish stocks are caused mainly by intensive fishing but scarcely publicized are the multitude of other influences at work. This book gives a review of existing knowledge and includes original work by the authors, scientists of wide experience in fisheries and oceanography. It summarizes and evaluates various methods of fishery resource assessment and factors affecting recruitment fluctuations. It also reviews the effects of ocean environmental factors and the behaviour of fish in relation to fishing gears as this can lead to improvement in gear and tactical approaches to fishing. Final chapters describe the problems associated with full utilization of marine fishery resources. The authors have produced a book which will help the fisheries industries of the world by promoting better fishery management and it will be of special value to those involved in fishing and resource assessment.

Fishing and Stock Fluctuations

Favorite, Felix

Technology

Comprehensive, concise, and authoritative, and based on critical examination of hundreds of scientific studies, Marine Ecosystems: Behaviour and Management is an in-depth appraisal of the nature and dynamics of marine ecosystems; their productivity, their basis for fisheries, and ecosystem management. The various types of marine ecosystems are described, and the ways in which they function are analysed, with emphasis on the behaviour of fish ecosystems, and the possible effects of man on marine resources. The effects of fishing on stocks and the marine ecosystems at large are explained and critically compared to naturally occurring fluctuations of fish stocks and marine ecosystems.

Exploitable Marine Ecosystems: Their Behaviour and Management

Wiley/Blackwell