Practical Manual of Fisheries

by Biswas, K P

ISBN: 9789388027489
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 7495.00
Biblio : xviii+190p., figs., tbls., indx., 25cm

Author Profile

Dr. K.P. Biswas, M.Sc., Ph.D., D.F.Sc. (Bombay), E.F. (West Germany), F.Z.S., F.A.B.S. (Kolkata), Former Joint Director Fisheries (L-I), Government of Odisha, Director Fisheries, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Government of India, Principal Fisheries Training Institute, Fishery Technologist (ICAR) and at present Faculty Member of Marine Science Department, University of Calcutta and Faculty Member, Department of Fishery Engineering, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences. He has published twenty four books and more than hundred research and review papers on Fisheries, Marine Sciences and Aquatic ecology. Dr. Biswas received Life Time Contribution Award, 2016 in appreciation of his long dedicated and outstanding contributions in the field of Zoology from The Zoological Society, Kolkata on July 29, 2016.

About The Book

The book, “Practical Manual of Fisheries” is contemplated to fulfil the long standing needs to guide the fisheries work in field studies. The book starts with the standard statistical methods required to conduct fish culture experiments for testing a hypothesis and for presentation and interpretation of data. As a pre-requisite, evaluation and assessment of aquatic communities in a body of water, whether for experiment or for commercial fish culture is described in details, both for plant and animal communities, group wise as to the sample collection, preservation and quantitative and qualitative assessment. The fish, the ultimate end product is dealt in a separate chapter, highlighting the assessment of population, their behavior, method of collection and the bioassay techniques together with it application. The basic knowledge of fish anatomy and other physiological systems and their inventory is narrated in a chapter with the exception of fish embryology and reproduction of fish. Reproduction of different groups of fish and commercial fish breeding, methods of cultivation for optimum production is dealt in details. The knowledge on food and feeding habits of fish, various methods of analysis of their gut contents, determination of age and growth rate by examining scale and hard parts is given special emphasis in this regard. Investigations on the pollution of water bodies, the cause of fish diseases, their symptoms and prevention and control is discussed. The field study of fish population census, biological investigations of water bodies with regard to evaluation of their fish productive capacities, impoundment surveys and the creation of new fishing waters are described in details. Chemical water analysis essential for fish production together with the significance of each parameter is also mentioned in the book as a ready reconer. Special importance on the methodology on brackish water shrimp farming is given in the last chapter of the book. The manual will be useful to students, researchers and teachers in field studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement vii Preface ix Introduction xv 1. Standard Statistical Methods for Fish Culture Experiments 1 2. Evaluation and Assessment of Aquatic Communities in a Water Body 11 3. Assessment of Fish Populations 41 4. Habitat Evaluation Procedure for Aquatic Assessments 51 5. Review of Fishes of the Region 59 6. Fish Anatomy 63 7. Fish Embryology 69 8. Fish Breeding 77 9. Methods of Cultivation 93 10. Food Habits of Fish: Food Analysis 99 11. Age and Growth Studies of Fish 105 12. Fish Population Census 119 13. Fish Diseases 123 14. Pollution of Water Bodies 131 15. Biological Fishery Surveys 135 16. Chemical Water Analysis 147 17. Biological Investigations 155 18. Creating New Fishing Waters 167 19. Shrimp Farming 171. 20. Brackish Water Shrimp Farming 177 References 187 Index 189