Stock Assessment: Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small Scale Fisheries - Hardcover

Gallucci, Vincent F.; Saila, Saul B.; Gustafson, Daniel J.; Rothschild, Brian J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566701511 ISBN 13: 9781566701518

Publisher: CRC Press, 1995

Synopsis

Stock Assessment: Quantitative Methods and Applications for Small Scale Fisheries is a book about stock assessment as it is practiced. It focuses on applications for small scale or artisanal fisheries in developing countries, however it is not limited in applicability to tropical waters and should also be considered a resource for students of temperate fishery management problems. It incorporates a careful sample design, various mathematical models as a basis for predicting consequences for stock exploitation, and discusses the impact of exploitation on non-targeted species. This was a unique concept involving a collaborative effort between U.S. and host country scientists to address issues of regional and global concern through innovative research.
Unlike other books on stock assessment that show mathematical models, this is the only book of its kind that discusses how an assessment is carried out. It looks at the field as a whole and includes sampling, age determination and acoustics.
The book represents the culmination of a nine-year program financed by the United States Agency for International Development to provide new or improved methods of stock assessment for artisanal fisheries.

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Review

. . . an excellent text and should be on the shelves of all those involved with fish stocks per se, particularly the management of small-scale fisheries.
-Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1566701511
• ISBN 13: 9781566701518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 538