Fishing often makes an important contribution to food security in northern regions, where agriculture is impossible or marginal at best, as well as...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has conducted an assessment in response to national and international concerns that over...

Offers a perspective of northern native societies that have depended upon whaling for centuries. Alaskan and Western Canadian Arctic coastal reside...

The traditional pursuit of whales by Eskimo hunters remains an area in which humans articulate directly with natural processes. This volume traces ...

In 2006 Congress recognised the need for international cooperation to address some of the most significant issues affecting international fisheries...

Aquaculture continues to grow more rapidly than all other animal food-producing sectors. The gap between seafood supply and market demand suggests ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) developed the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction (ALWTR) plan to protect endangered large whales from...

Norwegian spring-spawning herring and Northeast Arctic cod are two of the largest and commercially most important fish stocks in the North Atlantic...

Today, aquaculture in federal waters is among the most talked-about technologies associated with the future of seafood production in the United Sta...

This book is a study on ending overfishing and rebuilding fish stocks in U.S. federal waters. Fisherman and fishing communities sometimes suffer fr...

Highly migratory species (HMS) are fish stocks that often have trans-oceanic movements and life cycles. Tunas, billfishes, swordfish, and sharks ar...

Due to the intensity of research in the field warm water fish nutrition in Egypt, the decision was made to conduct the last fish nutrition in publi...

Recreational fishing is a traditional American pastime integral to social, cultural, and economic life in coastal communities across the nation. Th...

Pacific salmon are among the dominant fish groups and the main consumers of forage resources in the upper layer of the subarctic Pacific. In the la...

This book provides a good mix of both basic and applied topics in the hope that it will be useful and of interest to scientists working on finfish....

Focusing on the internal workings of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the author explores the impact of political and economic imperativ...

The first large-scale study of the important, but as yet largely invisible, group of Icelandic women who live on the sea -- their lives, contributi...

Sex determination, differentiation and gamete maturation are well organised molecular events in vertebrates. In vertebrates, sex determination and ...

Greenland's Inuit have for generations depended upon the hunting and sharing of whales to fulfill their needs. Yet their ability to continue their ...

Discover, through informative text and 120 vivid images, the interrelationships between commercial fishing, expanding gray seal populations, and gr...

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing sectors of agriculture globally. Production in freshwater and marine fisheries has plateaued or is declin...

This book discusses the harvesting, prevalence and benefits of tilapia and trout. Chapter One begins with a review of the risks and benefits of til...

In the last decades, the human harvesting of marine resources became more efficient as the understanding of the habits and behaviours of the variou...

Catch share programs are a fishery management tool that dedicates a secure share of quota allowing individual fishermen, fishing cooperatives, fish...

This book explores economic information about the Nation's commercial and recreational fishing activities, and fishing-related industries. Descript...

This volume presents the results of an interview survey among Greenland subsistence hunters on walruses and the catch of walruses in West and North...

This book examines how water management practices can influence commercial fishing activities and their economic benefits. Government water managem...

This informative new volume on the reproduction and development of zebrafish provides a timely and fundamental set of chapters presenting new data ...