Assessment Methodologies and Management: Proceedings of the World Fisheries Congress, Theme 5/edited by Gary T. Sakagawa. 1995, xiii, 195 p., figs., $32.
Contents: 1. Assessment methodologies and fisheries management/Gary T. Sakagawa. 2. Assessment methodologies and fisheries management: how to keep making sense/Daniel Pauly. 3. Split-beam technique used in Simrad EK500 to measure target strength/H. Bodholt and H. Solli. 4. Distribution of acoustic pelagic fish populations in the northern Aegean Sea/N. Tsimenides, G. Bazigos, E. Georgakarakos and A. Kapandagakis. 5. Tentative fish school identification with fractal geometry/Olga Moura and G. Afonso dos Santos. 6. Assessment of coral reef fish stocks in the southwest Pacific using an underwater visual census method/Melita Samoilys and Gary Carlos. 7. Development and status of electric fishing as a scientific sampling technique/James B. Reynolds. 8. A system of fishery analysis/M. Drapatsky and E. Cherny. 9. Interactive graphics computer models for fisheries management/Philip R.W. Sluczanowski, R.K. Lewis, Jeremy D. Prince and John Tonkin. 10. FishMan, a user-friendly fisheries management software/Sinjae Yoo, Chang Ik Zhang and Soonmo An. 11. Software tools for management of tropical aquatic resources/D. Pauly, F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., R. Froese and V. Christensen. 12. Modeling the influence of stocking and water level on the catch of cichild fishes in lake Kinneret (Lake Tiberias)/S. Ben-Tuvia, E.B. Davidoff and A. Ben-Tuvia. 13. Methods for detecting and modeling depensation in stock-recruitment relationships/Victor M. Gomez-Munoz. 14. Pacific halibut stock assessment: changing strategies for changing times/Patrick J. Sullivan and Donald A. McCaughran. 15. Problems in the estimation of growth parameters for the Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus in the Caribbean and Northeast Brazil/Jaime Gonzalez-Cano and Carlos Artur S. Rocha. 16. Catch-effort sampling strategies: their application in the management of inland fisheries/Ian G. Cowx. 17. A multispecies, simple approach to estimate catch tendencies with application to the Caribbean fisheries of Mexico/Francisco Arreguin-Sanchez. 18. Distribution and biomass of Krill, Euphausia superba in the southern part of the Ross Sea (Pacific sector of Antarctica) December 1989-January 1990/Massimo Azzali and Janusz Kalinowski. 19. Developing a methodology for sampling marine recreational fisheries in the United Kingdom/Simon Potten. 20. The relative biomass of living resources in the strait of Magellan, February-March 1991/Massimo Azzali, Janusz Kalinowski, Giulio Cosimi and Raul Castagnani. 21. Models of fish-patterns for the analysis of acoustic data with particular reference to the Adriatic Sea/Massimo Azzali, Manlio Luna, Giulio Cosimi and Janusz Kalinowski. 22. Fishery and ecological atlas of the Southern Gulf of Mexico/Patricia Sanchez-Gil, Domingo Flores-Hernandez, Julia Ramos-Miranda and Alejandro Yanez-Aranciba. 23. Feeding chronology of two demersal fish species of the Southern Gulf of Mexico/Evelia Rivera-Arriaga, Ana Laura Lara-Dominguez, Patricia Sanchez-Gil and Alejandro Yanez-Aranciba. 24. A study of Mitochondrial DNA variation in brown trout in Wales/Heather Hall, J. Beardmore and D. Skibinski.
"The first World Fisheries Congress was held in Athens in 1992. It was divided into plenary sessions and thematic sessions. This volume comprises papers presented in the workshops and sessions of theme 5 and in the computer-use workshops of the congress. The authors treat a variety of problems and approaches in the assessment and management of fisheries, ranging from freshwater to marine environments, and from north-temperate to southwest Pacific regions. Methods of assessment discussed range from the more-or-less classical approaches, e.g., acoustic sampling and electrofishing, to emerging methods--the application of fractal geometry. The computer-use papers range from packaging conventional analytical techniques to dealing with the rapidly evolving field of computer graphics--it is heartening to see, in these papers, the amount of emphasis on developing "user-friendly" applications.
"The first volume to be published was the plenary session papers and the overviews of the six thematic sessions.
"The succeeding volumes as planned, treat case-histories and issues specific to each of the themes (1) conditions of the world's aquatic habitats; (2) fisheries use and policy; (3) protection of biodiversity; (4) international development; (5) assessment methods and management (this volume); and (6) aquaculture." (jacket)