Fish population analysis [electronic resource].

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Glossary of Terms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Fish Population Analysis -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Why Assess Fish Stocks? -- 1.3. Ecosystem Factors and Stock Assessments -- 1.4. Fish Population Dynamic And Stock Assessment -- 1.5. Population Dynamics of Fisheries -- 1.6. Aims of Stock Assessment -- 1.7. Why Do Fish Populations Vary? -- 1.8. Methods For Assessing Fish Populations -- 1.9. Geographic Boundaries of Fish Populations

1.10. Factors Affecting Fish Growth And Production -- 1.11. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Early Life History And Recruitment In Fish Populations -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. What Are Fishes? -- 2.3. Natural History -- 2.4. Development Of Eggs And Larvae -- 2.5. Fish Recruitment -- 2.6. Changing Recruitment Capacity In Global Fish Stocks -- 2.7. The Utility Of Early Life History Studies And The Challenges of Recruitment Prediction -- 2.8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Fish Cognition And Behaviour -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Fish's Personality Traits And Behaviour

3.3. Social Intelligence Of Fisheries -- 3.4. Learning And Mate Choice -- 3.5. Does Sexual Imprinting PromoteSympatric Speciation In Fishes? -- 3.6. Optimizing Foraging Behaviour Through Learning -- 3.7. Fish Under Threat Release Chemicals To Warn Others Of Danger -- 3.8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Freshwater Fisheries Ecology -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Fisheries Management: The Basics -- 4.3. The Dynamics of Rivers In Relation to Fishes and Fisheries -- 4.4. Potential Impacts of Global Climate Change on Freshwater Fisheries -- 4.5. Restoration and Management of Freshwater Fisheries

4.6. Threats to Freshwater Fishes -- 4.7. Economic Aspects of Freshwater Invertebrates -- 4.8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Fish Stock Assessment -- 5.1. Fish Stock Assessment -- 5.2. Models of Fish Stock Assessment -- 5.3. Introduction to Cohort -- 5.4. Fishing Level and Exploitation Pattern -- 5.5. Biological Reference Point For The Management and Conservation of Fisheries Resources -- 5.6. Fisheries Regulation Measures -- 5.7. Indices of Abundance -- 5.8. Fitting Models To Data -- 5.9. Conducting Stock Assessments In a Changing Environment -- 5.10. Conclusion -- References

Chapter 6 Virtual Population Analysis -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Background -- 6.3. Objective of Virtual Population Analysis -- 6.4. Virtual Population Analysis Methods -- 6.5. Calculation Procedure of Virtual Population Analysis -- 6.6. Age-Based Cohort Analysis (Pope's Cohort Analysis) -- 6.7. Jones' Length-Based Cohort Analysis -- 6.8. Virtual Population Analysis Equations For Nonhomogeneous Populations -- 6.9. A Family of Approximations -- 6.10. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Quantitative Fish Dynamics -- 7.1. Fishing Mortality -- 7.2. Natural Mortality and Growth Characters

7.3. Measurement of Fishing Mortality.

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