Michael King is a past Associate Director of the Faculty of Fisheries and the Marine Environment at the Australian Maritime College in Tasmania.

"This second edition of Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management has been updated and expanded, providing a book which is an essential purchase for students and scientists studying, working or researching in fisheries and aquatic sciences." "Containing worked examples, computer programs and numerous high quality illustrations, Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management is a text for students worldwide studying fisheries and aquatic researchers, scientists and managers across the globe, in both temperate and tropical regions."--BOOK JACKET.

ontentsrefacecknowledgementsEcology and ecosystems.

1 Introduction.

2 Distribution and abundance.2.1 Unit stocks.2.2 Spacing of organisms.

3 Population growth and regulation.3.1 Population growth.3.2 Population regulation.3.3 Life history patterns.

4 Marine ecosystems.4.1 Coastal waters.4.2 Coral reefs and lagoons.4.3 Continental shelves and the open sea.

5 Human impacts on marine ecosystems.5.1 Habitat modification and loss.5.2 Eutrophication, siltation and heat.5.3 Petroleum, toxic chemicals and solid waste.5.4 Species invasions, introductions, and translocations.5.5 Climate change - the greenhouse effect and global warming.5.6 Ozone depletion.5.7 Assessing and minimizing environmental impacts.

6 Photosynthetic marine organisms.6.1 Macroalgae - seaweed.6.2 Microalgae - phytoplankton.6.3 Harmful algal blooms.

7 The flow of energy and material.7.1 Zooplankton.7.2 Daily migrations and the seasonal distribution of plankton.7.3 Food relationships, trophic levels and foodwebs.

8 Productivity and fisheries.8.1 Primary productivity and yield.8.2 Productivity from fisheries and aquacultureExploited species.1 Introduction.2 Invertebrates.2.1 Molluscsivalves - clams and cocklesastropods - sea snailsephalopods - squids and octopusesanagement measures.2.2 Crustaceansenaeids and carideans - prawns and shrimpsephropidae - clawed lobstersalinuridae - slipper and spiny lobstersrachyuran crabsnomuran crabsanagement measures.2.3 Other invertebratesolothurians - sea cucumberschinoids - sea urchinsanagement measures.3 Fishes.3.1 Demersal fishes of cooler waters - cods, hakes and haddocks.3.2 Demersal and reef fishes of warmer waters.3.3 Coastal pelagic fishes - clupeoids.3.4 Offshore pelagic fishes - tunas and sharks.3.5 Management measuresFishing and fishers.1 Introduction.2 Fishing gear and methods.2.1 Gleaning, spears and traps.2.2 Hooks and lines.2.3 Stationary nets.2.4 Towed nets and dredges.3 Fishers.3.1 Fishing for food.3.2 Fishing for income.3.3 Fishing for recreation.4 Effects of fishing.4.1 Effects on target species.4.2 Effects on non-target species.4.3 Effects on the environment and ecosystemsStock structure and abundance.1 Introduction.2 Structure and abundance.2.1 Relative abundance.2.2 Sampling surveys.2.3 Mark-recapture methods.2.4 Depletion methods.3 Factors that increase biomass.3.1 Size and growth.3.2 Growth from length-frequency data.3.3 Growth from tagging information.3.4 Growth from hard-part analyses.3.5 Reproduction.3.6 Recruitment.4 Factors that decrease biomass.4.1 Age-based catch curves.4.2 Length-based catch curves.4.3 Mortality from mark-recapture data.4.4 Natural mortalityStock assessment.1 Introduction.2 Stock abundance and catches - dynamic production models.2.1 Equilibrium models.2.2 Non-equilibrium models.2.3 Multispecies applications.2.4 Potential yield - rough estimators.3 Including growth and mortality.3.1 The effects of growth and mortality on biomass.3.2 The effects of fishing mortality on a single cohort.4 Including different year classes; age-structured models.4.1 Virtual population analysis.4.2 The classical yield per recruit model.4.3 The Thompson and Bell model.5 Simulation and ecosystem models.5.1 A biomass dynamic simulation model.5.2 An age-structured simulation model.5.3 Ecosystem models.5.4 Risk assessmentFisheries management.1 Introduction.2 The need for fisheries management.2.1 Biological overfishing.2.2 Economic overfishing.3 Managers and stakeholders.3.1 Fisheries management authorities.3.2 Co-management in commercial fisheries.3.3 Community-based fisheries management.4 The management process.4.1 Management policies and objectives.4.3 Reference points and indicators.4.4 Management plans.5 Management actions.5.1 Input controls (on fishing and fishing effort)imiting the number of fishing unitsimiting the efficiency and types of fishing gearinimum mesh sizes and escape gaps.5.2 Output controls (on the catch)uotasize limitsejection of females or gravid females.5.3 Controls to protect the ecosystemlosures a