Aquatic Resources and Fisheries

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Conduct for responsible fisheries and aquatic resources management. 3. Living aquatic resources and aquatic habitat protection. 4. Magnitude for escape mortality and it impact on fisheries management. 5. Reservoir fisheries resources of India. 6. Global production and state of marine fishery resources. 7. Inland fisheries development. 8. Development of coastal aquaculture in India. 9. Digestion in teleost fishes. 10. The fisheries and fish trade of India. 11. Sustaining marine fisheries. 12. Fishing and marine ecosystems. 13. Prawn fish and Bombay Duck Fishery. 14. Application of remote sensing to fisheries. 15. Current state of depletion in fisheries resources. Bibliography. Index.

Fisheries, comprising aquaculture, provide a vital source of food, employment, recreation, trade and economic well-being for people throughout the world, both for present and future generations and should therefore the conducted in a responsible manner. In recent past, world fisheries have become a market-driven, dynamically developing sector of the food industry and costal states have driven to take advantage of their new opportunities by investing in modern fishing fleets and processing factories in response to growing international demand for fish and fishery products.

The book is an incisive manual which mainly deals with living aquatic resources and aquatic habitat production, development of coastal aquaculture in India, sustaining marine fisheries, conduct for responsible fisheries and aquatic resources management, current state of depletion in fisheries resources etc.