Book description
The output from world aquaculture, a multi-billion dollar global
industry, continues to rise at a very rapid rate and it is now
acknowledged that it will take over from fisheries to become the main
source of animal and plant products from aquatic environments in the
future. Since the first edition of this excellent and successful book
was published, the aquaculture industry has continued to expand at a
massive rate globally and has seen huge advances across its many and
diverse facets.
This new edition of Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and
Plants covers all major aspects of the culture of fish, shellfish
and algae in freshwater and marine environments. Subject areas covered
include principles, water quality, environmental impacts of
aquaculture, desert aquaculture, reproduction, life cycles and growth,
genetics and stock improvement, nutrition and feed production,
diseases, vaccination, post-harvest technology, economics and
marketing, and future developments of aquaculture. Separate chapters
also cover the culture of algae, carps, salmonids, tilapias, channel
catfish, marine and brackish fishes, soft-shelled turtles, marine
shrimp, mitten crabs and other decapod crustaceans, bivalves,
gastropods, and ornamentals. There is greater coverage of aquaculture
in China in this new edition, reflecting China's importance in the
world scene.
For many, Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants is
now the book of choice, as a recommended text for students and as a
concise reference for those working or entering into the industry.
Providing core scientific and commercially useful information, and
written by around 30 internationally-known and respected authors, this
expanded and fully updated new edition of Aquaculture is a book
that is essential reading for all students and professionals studying
and working in aquaculture. Fish farmers, hatchery managers and all
those supplying the aquaculture industry, including personnel within
equipment and feed manufacturing companies, will find a great deal of
commercially useful information within this important and now
established book.
Reviews of the First Edition
"This exciting, new and comprehensive book covers all major
aspects of the aquaculture of fish, shellfish and algae in freshwater
and marine environments including nutrition and feed production."
-International Aquafeed
"Do we really need yet another book about aquaculture? As far as
this 502-page work goes, the answer is a resounding 'yes'. This book
will definitely find a place in university libraries, in the offices
of policy-makers and with economists looking for production and
marketing figures. Fish farmers can benefit greatly from the thematic
chapters, as well as from those pertaining to the specific plant or
animal they are keeping or intending to farm. Also, they may explore
new species, using the wealth of information supplied."
-African Journal of Aquatic Science
"Anyone studying the subject or working in any way interested in
aquaculture would be well advised to acquire and study this
wide-ranging book. One of the real 'bibles' on the aquaculture industry."
-Fishing Boat World and also Ausmarine
John Lucas is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre
for Marine Studies, School of Biological Sciences, University of
Queensland, Australia. Paul Southgate is Professor of Aquaculture in
the School of Marine and Tropical Biology at James Cook University,
Australia.
