Management and Ecology of Lake and Reservoir Fisheries [Hardcover]

In this comprehensive edited book, international experts in fisheries management and ecology review and appraise the status of lake and reservoir fisheries, assessment of fisheries yields, trophic ecology, rehabilitation and conservation, including a special section on African lakes where so much information of huge relevance to fisheries managers is now available.

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• Contributions from around the world.
  
• Carefully edited by internationally respected editor.
  
• Has been generated from acclaimed HIFI Symposium.

Preface.

I: Stock assessment for management purposes.

1. Hydroacoustic fish stock assessment in lakes in England and Wales (S. Hughes and J. Hateley).

2. The use of split-beam echosounder for fisheries assessment in reservoirs: necessity for validation (N. Cadic, P. Irz and C. Argillier).

3. Estimation of the fish yield potential of lakes in north-east Germany (U. Bramick).

4. Effects of area and location on pikeperch yields in Finnish lakes (J. Lappalainen and T. Malinen).

5. Fish stock assessment of Lake Schulen, Flanders: a comparison between 1988a dn 1999 (I. Simoens, J. Breine, H. Verreycken and C. Belpaire).

6. Ecology of European whitefish, Coregonus lavaretus, in two Austrian lakes in relation to fisheries management and lake productivity (J. Wanzenbock, H. Gassner, Y. Hassan, B. Lahnsteiner and G. Hauseder).

7. Fisheries of lake Victoria: an underwater perspective (R. Tumwebaze, A. Getabu, J. Bayona, D. MacLennan and I.G. Cowx).

8. Analysis of exploitation patterns for Nile perch, Lates niloticus, in Lake Victoria (O.C. Mkumbo, C. Ezekiel, Y.L. Budeba and I.G. Cowx).