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Derived from an unprecedented research effort covering over 31 years in a series of studies of 7 major river-estuaries, Eutrophication Processes in Coastal Systems presents a comprehensive and current review of the nature of the eutrophication process and how short- and long-term nutrient loading affects marine systems. This unique book is the culmination of the most advanced research to date on how coastal systems work.Based on an 11 year interdisciplinary study of the Perdido Bay System, Dr. Robert J. Livingston's groundbreaking work offers evidence for significant findings such as:oNutrient concentration gradients in fresh water as it entered the bay were stimulatory to phytoplankton bloomsoSpecies that showed distinctive seasonal and interannual successions dominated plankton bloomsoHigh relative dominance of bloom species was associated with significant reduction of phytoplankton species richness and diversityoThe blooms were associated with major reductions of infaunal and epibenthic macroinvertibrates, forcing a serious disruption of the food webs and losses of secondary productionEutrophication Processes in Coastal Ecosystems goes beyond its innovative analyses of how estuarine and coastal systems have responded to fundamental alterations of the eutrophication process. Dr. Livingston's book presents the case that bloom impacts must be reviewed against the background conditions that include periodic changes brought on by drought and anthropogenous dredging. It points to the critical need for further study of phytoplankton communities and the connection between plankton blooms, sediment deterioration, and low secondary production. ... Read more

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Dr. Livingston ignored the real problem
Unfortunately, Dr. Livingston studied the plant nutrients, nitrogen and phorphorus, but ignored the real problem in Perdido Bay - organic enrichment from the paper mill.Dr. Livingston studied Perdido Bay for eleven years and never found that the 5,000 to 6,000 pounds per day of solids that the paper mill discharges into Perdido Bay were having any effect.Rather he concentrated on a much lesser problem of nutrients.Yes, there was and still is eutrophication in Perdido Bay but most of the problem is from paper mill solids. ... Read more

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Over the last two decades there has been increasing recognition that problems in Oceanography and Fisheries Sciences and related marine areas are nearly all manifest in the spatio-temporal domain. Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the natural framework for spatial data handling, are being recognised as a powerful tool with useful applications in marine sciences. This book provides a thorough examination of marine GIS applications that include a high variety of methods and sophisticated approaches in coastal, continental shelf, and deep ocean studies. It presents new innovative approaches of using GIS in the examination of the dynamic relations that characterize the marine world, including marine GIS macro routines for the development of Oceanography and Fisheries GIS tools and applications.
Some application examples include: the mapping of fish production data (catch and landings); the identification of essential fish habitats; and the mapping of species migration corridors. ... Read more

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Current procedures used for hazard identification and classification are based on persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity measurements. Assessing the Hazard of Metals and Inorganic Metal Substances in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems provides the basis for improvements to the current model for hazard assessment. The book reviews the scientific underpinnings of the use of persistence as applied to metals, including bioavailability, and the use of bioaccumulation to evaluate aquatic species and aquatic-linked food chains. It also examines toxicity procedures as used within PBT approaches and measurements for metals in terrestrial ecosystems.

The book brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of scientists, managers, and policy makers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States to discuss various means for assessing the environmental hazard posed by metals and inorganic metal substances. The contributors include representatives from regulatory and nonregulatory government agencies, academia, industry, environmental groups, and consulting firms involved in assessment, management, and basic research of metals and metal substances. They provide a focused discussion of the fate and effects of metals in the environment, incorporating important advances developed over the past decade. ... Read more

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This book provides a comprehensive attempt to adopt an 'integrated' interdisciplinary approach to the study of fisheries. Fisheries are discussed as holistic 'systems', with emphasis on their structure, operation and dynamics. The book's interdisciplinary approach is applied to an analysis of problems faced in pursuing 'sustainable fisheries', with emphasis on six dominant themes: sustainability, uncertainty, complexity, conflict, fishing rights and the nature of management. Within this discussion, several major directions in current fishery thinking are explored, notably the precautionary approach, the ecosystem approach, co-management, and robust management for resilient fisheries. ... Read more

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Derived from an unprecedented research effort covering over 70 field years of field data in a series of studies, Trophic Organization in Coastal Systems represents an alternative approach to coastal research that has been successfully applied to coastal resource management issues. This unique book is based upon a sequence of long-term, interdisciplinary studies of a series of coastal regions in the NE Gulf of Mexico that include nutrient loading, habitat definition, quantified collections of organisms from microbes to fishes, and the determination of the trophic organization that defines the processes that shape the productivity of these areas.A multidisciplinary team of marine scientists, chemists, physical oceanographers, geologists, hydrologists, engineers, experimental biologists, and taxonomists have created a singular database of changes in a series of Gulf of Mexico coastal systems. This field information, together with field and laboratory experimentation, is integrated with the scientific literature to advance our understanding of how coastal food webs work. The central focus is on the relationship of primary production in the form of species-specific phytoplankton communities with associated food webs of coastal systems and the relationship of tropho-dynamic processes to long-term changes (natural and polluted) in such areas. The impacts of phytoplankton blooms on trophic organization is elucidated.The author, a renowned marine scientist, provides detailed knowledge of the processes that drive coastal ecosystems. He presents an in-depth discussion on how there is a hierarchy of cycles of differing periods that is associated with the formation and development of aquatic food webs. Trophic Organization in Coastal Systems will be particularly useful to those involved in research related to the importance of aquatic food webs to an understanding of how aquatic systems function. The principles and processes of trophic organization presented here can serve as a valuable model for research in other regions of the world. ... Read more

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Fish culture in hatcheries and other aquacultural facilities isbecoming much more intensive all over the world.The success of allkinds of fish rearing depends on the quality of management and thisdepends, in turn, on understanding the biology of fishes and theaquatic environment in which they live.This book directly addressesthe relationship between the aquatic environment and the fishes.Anunderstanding of this by the reader will result in a reduction ofdisease outbreaks through improved management. ... Read more

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I LOVE IT. USEFULL ...EKREM AYNAFOR BREEDING
THIS IS THE GRAND GRIMOIRE OF AQUACULTURISTS. THE BOOK OF RED DRAGON OF INTENSIVE BREEDERS. AFTER SEARCHING HUNDERDS OF BOOKS I GOT IT AT LAST. BUY ONE AND SEE PURE PHYSIOLOGY JUST FOR APPLICABLE.

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Simplistic thinking would have us believe that by eliminating the loading of a given pollutant, an aquatic system will revert to its previous pristine state. This premise is without scientific verification. Besides the fact that typically very little documentation exists defining what exactly that previous pristine state was, it should be noted that biological processes are non-linear. They reflect adaptations by populations and corresponding responses of trophic organization that are not predictable by linear models of recovery.

Restoration of Aquatic Systems makes a clear delineation between genuine restoration and public perception of restoration efforts. Written by Robert Livingston, one of the foremost international authorities on ecosystem studies of freshwater, estuarine, and marine environments, this work is the final volume of a trilogy derived from 70 field-years of data garnered from 10 different coastal systems on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The text provides a synthetic look at the restoration of aquatic systems, emphasizing the functional basis that supports such activities, followed by a review of the evidence of recovery.

Livingston considers numerous cases of scientific restoration; however, while the first two volumes could be considered pure science, this volume brings into play the impact of political as well as economic interests and where appropriate, media leverage. This work is thus concerned with just how effective the restoration process becomes as a product of a complex mixture of competing interests.

From this effort, an interdisciplinary comparative database has been created that is currently being published in a series of books and peer-reviewed scientific journals. This work is used to evaluate system-level processes that determine the effects of nutrient loading and nutrient dynamics on phytoplankton/benthic macrophyte productivity and associated food web responses. ... Read more

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Livingstone right on the money
This book is highly recommended for professionals and other parties interested in rehabilitation of aquatic ecosystems.Livingstone draws from a wealth of historical data and real world experience to demonstrate the various ecological, political and social issues that threaten aquatic ecosystems wherever development occurs. He uses several poignant examples from US ecosystems that highlight the warning signs of degradation and demonstrates the many problems inherent with restoration of degraded ecosystems.He catalogues observations of a shift in the political landscape and media attitudes from historically informing the public and confronting restoration issues, moving to denial and then to todays situation where the media, big business, politicians and "environmental" groups often obfuscate aquatic environmental issues for their own purposes, not necessarily to the benefit to the aquatic environment that needs the attention.He thus communicates the scale of the mountains that need to be climbed if aquatic restoration is to be effectively implemented in todays world, where ever increasing growth of human populations obsessed with consumerism and "keeping up with the Jonses" have become almost completely divorced from the welfare of their surrounding aquatic systems that one supported intact ecosystems and productive fisheries.Further proof that the laws of economics do not respect the laws of ecology, physics or thermodynamics.He comes to a conclusion that prevention through effective planning and environmental water quality regulation is probably the only effective method available for real protection of aquatic environments. ... Read more

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This book, and its companion, "Fish Physiology, Volume 12, Part A", seeks to provide a major synthesis of recent advances, general concepts, and diversity of fish species. It sets out to provide broad coverage of the major aspects of cardiovascular physiology and to act as a major source book for the field. This book discusses the special design of the venous system in aquatic vertebrates, reviews the nature of the secondary circulation in fish, and discusses the probable absence of the lymphatic system. It should be of value to teachers in comparative physiology as well as to the researcher. ... Read more

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The demand for high quality aquacultured products and an increasing concern for resource conservation has led individuals and large corporations to invest time and money in commercial scale recirculating production systems. However, there are relatively few reports of profitable recirculating production systems in operation. There is little doubt that most fish reared in ponds, floating net pens, or raceways can be produced in commercial scale recirculating systems.

The objective of this book is to provide basic information and analytical skills for the reader so that they may make the proper design or investment decisions concerning water reuse and recycle systems. The chapters of this book are sequenced to provide continuity to a basic approach that would be used in designing a water reuse or recycle system. The chapter authors contributing to this book have written extensively in the literature already on the particular subject being addressed in their chapter.

Considerable background information on the basic processes being presented is also given in each chapter to supplement the basic design information being provided. These chapters should provide the reader with essentially all the information required in order to design and manage a water reuse system.

The book is written for engineers and biologists working in the area of intensive fish culture. The text should also prove useful as a design manual for practising aquaculturists and as a resource of current "state-of-the-art" methodologies associated with water reuse systems. ... Read more

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Text considers issues of marine system resilience, focusing on a range of marine systems that exemplify major global province types. The authors concentrate on advances of the last decade. ... Read more

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This book presents both the philosophy and techniques of systems analysis and simulation, or modeling, as applied in wildlife and fisheries sciences. Texts providing a hands-on approach to learning modeling skills, similar to those found in engineering and management fields, have not been written for students in wildlife and fisheries sciences before. The objectives of this book are to describe the systems approach to problem solving, demonstrate its applicability to wildlife and fisheries problems and develop a general understanding and basic vocabulary in selected areas of mathematics, statistics and computer science as they relate to ecological modeling. ... Read more

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This book and its companion, Fish Physiology, Volume 12, Part B, are the first major syntheses of recent advances, general concepts, and species diversity of fish in almost 25 years.It provides broad coverage of the major aspects of cardiovascular physiology and is a definitive sourcebook for the field.This book discusses the special design of the venous system in aquatic vertebrates, reviews the nature of the secondary circulation in fish, and discusses the probable absence of the lymphatic system.It is of value to teachers in comparative physiology as well as to the researcher. ... Read more

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The approach of a new millenium provides a suitable opportunity to reassess existing management systems and to seek out more appropriate systems for the future. The debate which is initiated by the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy in 2002, is likely to prove wide-ranging. As a contribution to the debate this book focuses on the need for institutional change in order to accomodate new policy objectives, new stakeholders and new regulatory measures.

Alternative management systems are examined at different levels from the regionalisation of the CFP through coastal state participation in the management of local fisheries. Issues of 'integrated fisheries management' are explored through a number of approaches including ecosystem management, the Marine Stewardship Council and integrated coastal zone management. Several Contributions focus on alternative means of controlling fishing effort and their enforcement. ... Read more

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Common property rights pose one of the most pervasive problems for fisheries management, legitimising exploitative behaviours among competing resource users and inhibiting the development of effective management regimes for sustainable fisheries. Issues of property rights and regulatory systems are examined at different levels in the hierarchy of management from local inshore fisheries through coastal state jurisdiction to international high seas regimes. Contributions include an assessment of the new international regime in the aftermath of the UN Agreement on high seas fishing, the legal interpretations of property rights, key issues for the reform of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy, and the efficacy of local community management systems. ... Read more

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Published in Cooperation with THE UNITED STATES AQUACULTURE SOCIETY

As aquaculture production continues to grow and develop there is a continuous search for new species to culture to be able to fully exploit new national and international markets. Species selection for aquaculture development often poses an enormous challenge for decision makers who must decide which species and culture technologies to support with public resources, and then how best to divide those resources. Species and System Selection for Sustainable Aquaculture brings together contributions from international experts with experience in identifying potential species and production systems for sustainable aquaculture with a socioeconomic focus. The book is divided into three sections: Principles, Practices, and Species-Specific Public Policy for Sustainable Development. An outgrowth of a workshop held as part of the Aquaculture Interchange Program with examples from around the globe carefully edited by PingSun Leung, Pat O'Bryen, and Cheng-Sheng Lee this volume will be an important reference for all researchers, professionals, economists, and policy-makers involved in selecting new species for the development of sustainable aquaculture. ... Read more

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Sustainability is of paramount concern
As the global demand for aquacultured products continues to rise, so does the need for social, economic, and environmental sustainability. With this expansion, established species under production are augmented with new and emerging species with "perceived" enhanced value. Likewise, established and "new" production systems and technologies are continually under review and optimization. Given ongoing and predicted expansion of global aquaculture, sustainability in all its forms is of paramount concern.

This book is a synthesis from review papers presented at the NOAA funded workshop held in October of 2005. This workshop was organized by the Aquaculture Interchange Program, and held at the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii. This book focuses on socioeconomic perspectives and ramifications relating to the selection of established and emerging species, and associated selection of production systems. The contributing authors and editors provide a breadth of experience and knowledge ranging from research and policy through to industrial applications.

The book is broken into three parts: Principles, Practices, and Species-Specific Public Policies for Sustainable Development. Within Principles, sustainability is defined followed by discussions on enabling regulatory policy, assessment, economic analysis, and farm modeling toward farm feasibility assessment. Part 2 focuses on examples of successes and failures and reviews relating to species and production system selection in aquaculture from various regions around the world as well as a discussion on evolutionary regulatory policy in the United States towards sustainable aquaculture development. Part 3 provides examples from around the world of species specific public policies toward sustainable development, along with several species-specific industry reviews.

Comprehensively, the book does a good job demonstrating differences between commercial production often associated with developed countries, rural production related more to developing countries, and the role of government in the developmental process. This book is a valuable reference for all stakeholders in advancement of sustainable aquaculture. This includes but is not limited to the production sector, economists, researchers, educators, and policy makers.

Republished with permission from the International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture, Volume 11, June 2010.Review written by Dr. Michael Schwarz. ... Read more

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Water resources professionals have an obligation to conceive and manage water resource systems so that they will fully contribute to an improved quality of life. Those sustainable water resource systems will be able to satisfy the changing demands that will inevitably be placed on them, without significant system degradation. An international group of experts has reviewed various guidelines for achieving greater degrees of sustainability and the extent to which they have been applied in a number of case studies. The group provides approaches for measuring and modeling sustainability and ways in which these measures and models might be used when evaluating alternative designs and operating policies are illustrated. ... Read more