S. College, Zuarinagar, Goa.

The articles, presented by experts from fisheries sector and academicians from various institutions, provide a small step in the direction of sustainable fisheries and may contribute in formulating a fisheries policy (less)

The status of fisheries both in capture and culture sector of India have find place in the book together with post harvesting technology and preservation to get higher value of the fish catch. The value added fish processed products, which is an essential step for industrial fisheries are also described (less)

The present book is based on recent views, ideas and progress in the field of fisheries. The book contains some important aspects of applied fisheries.

It covers topics such as live feed organisms in prawns, hatcheries culture and breeding of magur and murrels, impact of exotic fishes on indigenous fish fauna, fisheries cooperatives, marketing etc. The book will be of invaluable help to teachers, students, researchers and all those who are interested in the fisheries (less)

Selected topics from fish anatomy, fish physiology, identification of fishes and fisheries have been incorporated in this book which are extremely useful for the Hons. and Postgraduate students of Indian Universities reading fishery science.

Balanced description, well labelled beautiful illustration and mention of pioneer contributions are some of the special features of this book. Some fresh water fishes of India have been described with latest classification, diagnostic features, distribution and fin formula in the book.

The book has been thoroughly revised and enlarged. Some new chapters like "Food Feeding Habits and Alimentary Canal", "Skeleton", "Common Biota of Fish Ponds of India'V'Fish and Pesticides" and "Fisheries Institutions in India" have been added (less)

The present book on Women Empowerment in Fisheries is the step towards identification of key issues affecting women in the Indian fisheries sector. Efforts have been made to bring together heads of various concerned organizations involved in fisheries research, education and training development to contribute their experiences on the role of women in fisheries.

The book serves as an important document and stimulates further discussions and development of appropriate programs in India. The book stresses the importance of education of women and increase in their awareness to various issues in fisheries, provision of credit facilities and the need to develop women friendly technologies (less)

It includes case studies of the MSC certified fisheries (less)

The terms have been selected to represent most of these disciplines. The encyclopaedia contains terms covering: Marine biology, Limnology, Ecology, Pathology, Oceanography, Meteorology, Aquaculture, Fishing gear and gear materials, Fishing methods, Fish processing and products, Processing machines, Microbiology.

Only those terms which are frequently used, or which are though to be helpful to different kinds of users are included. It is an encyclopaedia of fish and fisheries, written by specialists, partly for other specialists but more particularly for laymen, and for students and interested workers of all kinds and ages (less)

With a view to acquaint readers to the terminology in vogue the world over an attempt has been made to compile and present terminology pertaining to aquatic resources and fisheries in the form of this book. This publication would be useful to the teachers, extension workers etc.

engaged in the study and management of aquatic resources. In this publication, over 8000 words are compiled for benefit of readers.

These are arranged in alphabetical order. Wherever a word is bearing more than one meaning, these are stated separately under heading 1, 2, 3, The synonyms wherever appear are indicated in the parenthesis.

When two different words have same meaning, their entries are not repeated. In such cases the cross-references frequently form an integral part of the text and a cross-reference is often placed within the text and is preceded by See also (less)

It is an encyclopaedia of fish and fisheries, written by specialists, partly for other specialists but more particularly for laymen, and for students and interested workers of all kinds and ages (less)

Appendix I: FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible fisheries and Appendix II; International Law of Sea. The book is based on a long professional experience in the field of the authors and on exhaustive analysis of the primary and secondary data on fisheries and aquaculture collected from authoritative national and international sources.

The information is quite comprehensive, covering all-important areas in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. We hope that the book will stimulate action at all levels to help achieve the full potential of fisheries sector in India.

The book should be useful to students, political leaders, planners, policy makers, executives, research workers and teachers (less)

Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (M.S.

). We are grateful to all the contributors who responded promptly by making their articles available which had catalytic impact upon us, to complete the task to publishing this book the articles have been written by well known experts and researchers in their respective field.

This book will be very useful for the students, teachers and researchers in this field and it can also be used as a standard reference book (less)

All the traditional methods together with the modern counterparts are now using high technology. These are commonly described as “aquaculture”.

It has surpassed all means of food production. The current economic problems facing the fisheries and aquaculture industry cannot be solved by” relying on Government subsidies and the quotas to stabilize total landings.

These actions must be accompanied by an improvement in the business management capabilities of persons involved in the fishery industry specially in the area of marketing (less)

Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (M.S.

). We are grateful to all the contributors who responded promptly by making their articles available which had catalytic impact upon us, to complete the task of publishing this book.

The articles have been written by well known experts and researchers in their respective field (less)

Details of important marine fauna like phytoplankton, zooplankton, corals, sponges, mollusk, sea turtles are also given. The book gives a description of aquatic resources like aquatic weeds and mangroves, with English and scientific names and identification, along their commercial utilisation.

The book also provides a list of more than 300 marine fishes and 100 freshwater fishes with their scientific, English and local names. It describes rare, endangered, threatened and vulnerable species in Gujarat.

Details of fishing craft and gear, their classification, design, material used etc. are also provided.

Details of fishing harbours of India are also provided (less)

In conformity with the focal theme, the section of the Animal, veterinary and Fishery sciences has also adopted the seminar theme on "Natural and Anthropogenic hazards on Conservation and management of Biodiversity". Several earlier sectional president and prominent Zoologists of the country and the committee members from Animal, Veterinary and fishery sci9ences readily agreed to bring out a special volume pertaining to the focal theme of the Congress, so that certain areas could be covered.

Such a compiled volume would prove to be useful for students, researchers, scientists working in various organizations and planners. In this context, special mentioned may be made of Dr.

M.S.

Swaminathan, Chairman, M.S.

Swaminathan research Foundation who encouraged me to compile a volume on natural and Anrhropogenic Hazards on Fish and Fisheries in the Indian content. This special release in conjugation with the 94th session of Indian Science Congress contains 30 articles from different resource persons working in different national institutions ICAR, and Universities of the country.

It has been noteworthy that a fraction of the issues concerning different hazards on the fish fauna from two biodiversity hot spots of the country, viz. North east India, and the Eastern and eastern Ghats, along with their effects in certain fisheries of the country have been tabled.

The release would highlight comprehensive ideas on how different natural and anthropogenic hazards have affected the entire fisheries and fish fauna of the country from inland, estuarine, brackishwater, coastal, marine, mangrove, wetlands and certain main river systems, viz. the Brahjmaputra and Ganes system and certain aspects on problems on shrimp farming, cage culture and migration of Hilsa after the construction of the farraka barrage, ecological disruption and long term effects of tsunami etc (less)

The consultation was held at Almaty, Kazakhstan, from 25 to 29 September 2001. The document brings together twelve papers that review the present use of irrigation systems for fisheries in the countries of the arid belt of Asia, from Turkey to China (less)

The concept of an optimal level of discarding is discussed taking into account the externalities that can be created by discarding. Finally, the effectiveness of various measures to reduce the level of discarding is reviewed (less)