Fish Hatchery Management

Published in North and Central America by the American Fisheries Society. Available exclusively from CABI Publishing in all other territories of the world. Second edition of a leading fish culture manual. Relevant for both private and public fish culture. Vital as a training tool and as a day to day hatchery resource. This second edition expands and updates the original Fish Hatchery Management, the preeminent fish culture manual, originally published in 1982, which has been used in universities and training centres to train new generations of culturists. The new edition has been completely rewritten by experts to include major advances in hatchery operation, in practical knowledge about raising high-quality fish, and in optimal use of cultured fishes in management programmes. This up-to-date volume is greatly needed as a training tool and day-to-day hatchery resource. Like the first edition, the book includes a great deal of information about particular species, but its focus remains on the requirements and practical operation of culture systems. The new edition covers advances in production, water issues, transportation, stocking, open systems, controlled systems, semi-controlled systems, brood stocks and spawning, nutrition and feeding, fish health, and special considerations. Authors have developed chapters for relevance to both private and public fish culture.

Table of Contents:
1: History and Purpose of Fish Culture, Robert R Stickney, Texas Sea Grant, Texas A&M University, USA 2: Production, Harry Westers, Aquaculture Bioengineering Corporation 3: Hatchery Water Supply and Treatment, John E Colt, US National Marine Fisheries Service, and Joseph J Tomasso, Jr, Department of Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Wildlife, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA 4: Open Systems: The Culture of Fish for Release into Natural Systems, William Pennell, E D Lane and Frank Dalziel, all Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Malaspina University, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada 5: Semicontrolled Systems, Patricia M Mazik, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Nick C Parker, Texas Cooperative Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit, Texas Tech University, USA 6: Controlled Systems: Water Reuse and Recirculation, Steven Summer Felt, Julie Bebak-Williams and Scott Tsukuda, all Freshwater Institute of the Conservation Fund, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA 7: Broodstock Management for Imperiled and Other Fishes, J Holt Williamson, Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Dexter, New Mexico 8: Nutrition and Feeding, Frederic T Barrows, Bozeman Fish Technology Center, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bozeman, Montana, and Ronald W Hardy, Hagerman Fish, Culture Experiment Station, University of Idaho, USA 9: Fish Health Management, James R Winton, Western Fishery Research Center, Biological Resources Division, US Geological Survey, Seattle, Washington, USA 10: Fish Transportation, Gary J Carmichael, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Mora Fish Technology Center, New Mexico and Joseph J Tomasso, Jr and Thomas E Schwedler, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Wildlife, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA 11: Stocking, Kyle J Hartman, Division of Forestry, West Virginia University, and Bret Preston, Wildlife Resources Section, West Virginia Division of Natural Resource, USA 12: Management Considerations and Economics, James W Meade, US Geological Survey