Advances in Fisheries and Fish Production (Dr. V.G. Jhingran Commemorative Volume)/edited by Syed Hasib Ahmad. 1998, 309 p., figs., $45. ISBN 81-7075-053-9.
Contents: Foreward by Hon'ble Governor of Bihar, Shri A.R. Kidwai. Preface. 1. Fish to alleviate malnutrition/A.K.M. Nuruzzaman. 2. Status of fisheries in India/Radhe Shyam. 3. Freshwater resource utilisation for production, employment and social benefits/S.N. Dwivedi and A.S. Ninawe. 4. Advances in fish genetics and biotechnology/W.S. Lakra. 5. Fish genetic resources of India and their conservation/P. Das. 6. Breeding and culture of Indian major carp/V.R.P. Sinha. 7. Circular fish hatchery of Chinese type: design improvement and adoption in India/Tarsem Lal. 8. Development of fish culture management techniques/S.K. Sarkar. 9. Investment pattern for aquaculture farms/P.S. Rao. 10. Aquaculture of air-breathing fishes/Nirmal K. Thakur. 11. Himalayan lakes: present status and strategies for management/K.K. Vass. 12. Retrospects and prospects of integrated aquaculture - agriculture - animal husbandry farming in India/V.G. Jhingran, S.H. Ahmad and A.K. Singh. 13. Recent advances in shrimp farming in India/P. Gopalakrishnan. 14. Fisheries of the floodplain lakes in the Ganga and Brahmaputra basins/Y.S. Yadava. 15. Chilka lake as a major capture fishery resource of India/P.M. Misra. 16. Fisheries of Rihand Dam--progression and retrogression/V.R. Desai. 17. Modern frontiers of rice-fish systems/D.P. Sinhababa and B. Venkateswarlu. 18. Rice-fish farming systems/A.P. Rao and Ram Singh. 19. Reservoir fisheries of Tamilnadu: half a century of fisheries of Stanley reservoir (Mettur Dam)/A. Sreenivasan. 20. Fisheries of Gobindsagar Dam/K.K. Tandon and M.S. Johal. 21. Central Institute of Fisheries Education--India's first deemed fisheries university/V.R.P. Sinha. 22. Marine fisheries in India--present status and resources availability/A.K. Bhargava and D. Sudarsan. 23. Problems and prospects of farming marine finfish in India/P. Bensam. 24. Training of manpower for deep sea fishing industry/C.P. Verghese.
"The book incorporated twenty four invited articles contributed by the eminent scientists of India and abroad which covers practically almost all the sector of aquaculture and fisheries. These papers not only contain an uptodate informations but throws some light on the future line of research likely to be taken up in the respective field of fisheries science. The book will be a welcome addition because it would serve the long needed requirement of the scientists, teachers and extension workers engaged in this field." (jacket)