edited by Ian Cowx
Stock Assessment in Inland Fisheries assesses the advantages and shortcomings of all current techniques and management strategies used in assessment of freshwater fish stocks.
Contents
Survey Methods
- Fish population survey methods: a synthesis
- Electrical fishing for the assessment of fish stocks in large rivers
- The use of resistivity fish counters in fish stock assessment
- Evaluation of a low disturbance method for estimating population densities of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) and trout (Salmo trutta L.) juveniles in chalk streams
- Assessment of the deep water trawl fisheries of the South East Arm of Lake Malawi using exploratory surveys and commercial catch data
- Selectivity of Breder traps for sampling fish fry
- Estimation of migrant yellow eel stock in large rivers through the survey of fish passes: a preliminary investigation in the River Meuse (Belgium)
Catch Effort Methods
- Catch census of coarse anglers in England and Wales
- Log books as a mechanism for assessing long-term trends in the salmonid fisheries, with particular reference to the sea trout stocks of the River Tywi
- Estimating historical trends of migratory fish runs into rivers without counters
- Interpreting trends in adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations from angling recorsds: an analysis of catch and effort data from the River Spey
- Catch and effort data and the management of the commercial fisheries of Itaipu reservoir in the upper Paraná river, Brazil
Hydroacoustic Assessment
- Use of horizontal dual-beam sonar for fish surveys in shallow waters
- Application of a hydroacoustic sampling technique in a large wind-exposed, shallow lake
- A hydroacoustic assessment of a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) population in a deep oligotrophic lake
- Stock assessment of the Artic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) population in Loch Ness, UK
- Estimating fish production and biomass in the pelagic zone of Lake Malawi/Niassa: a comparison between acoustic observations and predictions based on biomass size-distribution theory
Population models
- A length-structured matrix population model used as a fish stock assessment tool
- Uncertainty in fish stock assessment based on bottom trawl surveys in Lake IJsselmeer
- Technical interactions in tropical floodplain fisheries of south and south-east Asia
- Estimation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) and sea trout (Salmo trutta L.) run size and angling expoitation on the Welsh Dee, using mark-recapture and trap indices
- Population dynamics of steelhead trout in a coastal stream, the Keogh River, British Columbia
- Mark-recapture experiment in a sea trout (Salmos trutta L.) ranching stream: catch effort and sample size for a confident population estimate through the season
Case Studies—Lakes and Reservoirs
- Stock assessment considerations in large lakes and reservoirs
- Stock assessment in Sri Lankan reservoirs: a review
- Progress and problems in the stock assessment of Lake Tanganyika sardines
- Limitations of catch and effort data collection methods used for inland fisheries in the SADC region, with particular reference to Zimbabwe
- Trout yield in Lake Taupo, New Zealand: anglers' eldorado or just another fishery?
- Assessment and prediction of whitefish stock (Coregonus lavaretus) of Lake Constance (Bodense)
- The use of depletion fisheries data in fish stock assessment in Lake Wolderwijd, The Netherlands
Case Studies—Rivers
- Stock assessment considerations for riverine fisheries
- Growth and mortality rates of an endangered species, Synodontis victoriae, in Sondu/Miriu river, Kenya
- Stock assessment and fisheries population dynamics in Spanish mountain streams
- Stock assessment of European eel Anguilla anguilla L.
- Exploitation of Alosa pontica in the Danube Delta, Romania
- Age and growth of Petenia splendida Günther in the San Pedro River (Southern Mexico)
Fisheries Management
- Maximization of yields from African Lakes
- Community-based management in inland fisheries: case studies from two Malaysian fishing communities
- The integration of fish stock assessment into fisheries management
Index
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