Publisher's Synopsis
Stock enhancement and sea ranching has been practised for decades for a wide variety of marine fish and invertebrate species in Japan, and for salmonids. As a result, fisheries scientists and managers worldwide have been encouraged to use these techniques to increase the productivity of existing fisheries, to create new fisheries, and to restore those that are no longer viable. Projects are now under way not only in Japan, but also on cod in Norway, striped mullet in Hawaii, red drum in Texas, white seabass in California, scallops in New Zealand, shrimp in China and sturgeons in the Caspian Sea, to name a few. This edited work, based on the first International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching, presents and discusses advances in these techniques and their consequences and sets out to identify the most important priorities for future research.
This important book covers many key issues relating to stock enhancement and sea ranching and is vital reading to a range of fisheries scientists and biologists.
