Fisheries Science

This book is an academic as well as a reference book for the Zoology and Fisheries students and scholars. This book deals with general fisheries to the culture of the species. It covers information like the present status and scope of fisheries various fisheries and their economic importance. It covers the entire syllabus of the Fisheries Science paper for the II MSc students. It gives detailed information on the taxonomic classification characteristic features morphology biology and culture of various marine and freshwater species like fish mollusks crustaceans and cephalopods. This book provides a detailed report on the various types of fisheries such as Riverine Reservoir Pond Marine Pearl Coldwater fisheries and Carp fisheries Crab fisheries Lobster fisheries Mussel fisheries Clam fisheries Cockle fisheries Oyster fisheries Pearl oyster fisheries and Cephalopod fisheries. This book also explains the various 12 fishing zones of India with a detailed map. This book also explains various scientific technologies in a fish culture like bundh breeding pen culture monosex culture polyculture mixed culture integrated culture etc. Shellfish culture like rack culture raft culture pole culture on and off-bottom culture longline culture bouchot culture rack and ren culture rack and tray culture stake culture and so on. This book also deals with water quality management production life cycle harvesting transport and marketing for marine species. Induced or artificial breeding in fish and crustaceans is also illustrated in this book. Every detail is explained with illustrations of student needs. There is no single book in the market which all these chapters on the whole.