Book description
This expanded and fully updated Second Edition of the most
comprehensive and successful book on lobsters, comprises contributions
from many of the world's experts, each providing core information for
all those working in lobster biology, fisheries research and
management and lobster aquaculture.
Under the editorship of Bruce Phillips, the Second Edition of
Lobsters: Biology, Management, Fisheries and Aquaculture
delivers exhaustive coverage of these fascinating creatures,
stretching from growth and development to management and conservation.
A number of chapters from the First Edition covering Growth,
Reproduction, Diseases, Behaviour, Nutrition, Larval and Post-Larval
Ecology and Juvenile and Adult Ecology have been replaced by new
chapters including Lobsters in Ecosystems, Genetics, Translocation,
Climate Change, Ecolabelling of Lobsters, Casitas and Other Artificial
Shelters, Systems to maximise Economic Benefits.. These new chapters
reflect changes that are occurring in lobster management and new
research developments brought on by social, climatic and economic changes.
As well as information from new research output, information in each
chapter is also included on individual commercial Genera, including
aspects of Species and distribution, Predators and diseases, Ecology
and behaviour, Aquaculture and enhancement, Harvest of wild
populations and their regulations, Management and conservation. The
chapter on slipper lobsters has also been expanded to include
Thenus and Ibacus species which are now subject to
commercial fisheries. The changes that have occurred in some lobster
fisheries, the new management arrangements in place, the status of
stocks and the current economic and social situation of each fishery
have also been covered and discussed in great detail.
Fisheries scientists, fisheries managers aquaculture personnel,
aquatic and invertebrate biologists, physiologists, ecologists, marine
biologists and environmental biologists will all find Lobsters
Second Edition to be a vital source of reference. Libraries in all
universities and research establishments where biological and life
sciences and fisheries and aquaculture are studied and taught will
find it an extremely valuable addition to their shelves.
Bruce Phillips is based at the Department of Environment and
Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia and is highly
regarded for his work in the area of fisheries and aquaculture with a
focus on invertebrates.
