Handbook of Freshwater Fishery Biology: Life History data on Ichthyopercid and Percid Fishes of the United States and Canada [Hardcover]

Kenneth D. Carlander (Author)

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Publication Date: February 25, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0813829992 | ISBN-13: 978-0813829999 | Edition: 1

Compiles data and information on the management of important game fish, completing a trilogy of handbooks, the first two recognized as classics in the field.

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These volumes have, for over 30 years, been the most readily available source listing the scattered articles, theses, bulletins, and research on freshwater fish in the United States and Canada.

The Handbook of Freshwater Fishery Biology summarizes the available data on age, growth, length weight, fecundity, reproductive behavior feeding habits, and necessary environment for each freshwater species. The comparison of species is presented in a manner easily used by fishery mangers and biologists. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Kenneth D. Carlander was Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor Agriculture, Professor of Fisheries, Dept. of Animal Ecology at Iowa State University. Served as President of the Iowa Academy of Science and the American Fisheries Society and was a U.S. Representative, International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology. He served as a consultant for the Ford Foundation Alexandria University, in Egypt in 1056-66. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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• Hardcover: 397 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813829992
• ISBN-13: 978-0813829999
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
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This review is from: Handbook of Freshwater Fishery Biology: Life History data on Ichthyopercid and Percid Fishes of the United States and Canada (Hardcover)

This is the third and final volume to the now classic Handbook of Freshwater Fishery Biology. The completed set compiles life history data and information on individual species of freshwater fish in the United States and Canada. In volume three, each chapter treats a particular species of fish. For example, the chapter on Yellow Perch is 54 pages in length. Detailed tabular data on the fish are provided concerning the length, weights, weight-length relationships, total lengths, condition factors, daily growth, lengths and weights at various ages, and number of eggs per female. In addition it compiles information from the literature on population density, food, feeding behavior, reproduction, mortality, population distribution and behavior, environmental factors, and more. The text serves as an index to the literature for each fish. The lengthy list of citations referenced in the text attests to the work the author completed in combing the fish literature, it is 84 pages in length.

The set is geared more to the professional ichthyologist and fish and game personnel. It has no illustrations in any of the volumes. Its strength is in the summary and tabular presentation of life history data gleaned from hundreds of journal articles, books, government reports, and unpublished data for each species of fish. This classic should be in every academic, state, and large public library and is essential in any ichthyology collection. Highly recommended.