Fisheries Ecology and Management
By (Author) Carl J. Walters
By (author) Steven J. D. Martell
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th January 2005
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Fisheries and related industries
639.2
Paperback
448
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
Quantitative modeling methods have become a central tool in the management of harvested fish populations. This book examines how these modeling methods work, why they sometimes fail, and how they might be improved by incorporating larger ecological interactions. Fisheries Ecology and Management provides a broad introduction to the concepts and quan
"An extremely valuable book... [W]e believe this to be a very important text for fisheries ecology and management."--Reviews in Fish Biolgy and Fisheries
Carl J. Walters is Professor at the Fisheries Centre at University of British Columbia. He is the author, with Ray Hilborn, of "Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment and Adaptive Management of Renewable Resources". Steven J.D. Martell is Assistant Professorof Fisheries at the University of Maryland.