Bücher der Reihe CRC Marine Biology Series

Providing an overview of techniques for fish farmers and researchers, this guide addresses ways to improve depleted stocks of endangered fish and other species. It focuses on sperm and egg quality characteristics before presenting information on the materials and facilities required for gamete preparation and freeze-thawing procedures.

Offers a summary of information about marine birds. This work analyzes their breeding biology, ecology, taxonomy, evolution, fossil history, physiology, energetics, and conservation. It covers four orders of marine birds and includes two chapters that address the biology of shorebirds and wading birds and their lives in the marine environment.

Emphasizes aspects of biology that relate to sea turtle management and to changes in marine and coastal ecosystems. This book contains topics including the interactions of humans and sea turtles. It also presents an introduction to sea turtle anatomy, sensory and reproductive biology, sea turtle habitat use and ecology, and stress and health.

The spotted seatrout is an important species not only for recreational and commercial fisheries, but also as an integral part of many estuarine ecosystems. This book presents a summary of the basic biology of this important species.

Written by the world¿s leading experts in whale shark biology, ecology, and conservation, this book is the first definitive volume about the world's biggest fish.