Economic Aspects: Fisheries and Culture

The Biology of Crustacea, Volume 10: Economic Aspects: Fisheries and Culture focuses on economic aspects of elements of crustacean biology associated primarily with the production of human food, namely, fisheries and culture.
Organized into five chapters, this book deals first with the groups comprising the commercially important shrimps and prawns and their near relatives, as well as the generally used fishing method. It then describes the role and impact of body form in the biology and especially the fisheries of crabs. Subsequent chapter centers on lobsters and their kin, particularly the impact on fisheries methods and management approaches of behavioral responses to environment, modes of reproduction, recruitment, and population dynamics. Culture methods and factors important in managing systems through water quality control are then reported. Lastly, large-scale culture of major decapod groups, including the general biological characteristics of decapods relevant to aquaculture, is presented.
This book will help stimulate the further exploration of some of the most fascinating and exciting problems in applied crustacean biology.

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List of Contributors
General Preface
General Acknowledgments
Preface to Volume 10
Classification of the Decapoda
Contents of Previous Volumes

1. Fisheries Biology of Shrimps and Shrimplike Animals
   I. Introduction
   II. Fishing Gear and Methods
   III. Penaeid Shrimps
   IV. Caridean Shrimps
   V. Stomatopod and Zooplankton Fisheries
   VI. Food Technology
   VII. Perspectives
   References
2. The Biology and Exploitation of Crabs
   I. Crab Defined
   II. Uniqueness of the Crab Form
   III. Exploitation
   IV. Summary
   References
3. Fisheries Biology of Lobsters and Crayfishes
   I. Introduction
   II. General Biology
   III. Population Dynamics
   IV. The Fisheries
   V. Perspectives
   References
4. Culture of Crustaceans: General Principles
   I. Purposes of Cultivation
   II. Culture Systems and Their Management
   III Criteria for Aquaculture Species: Characteristics of Crustaceans
   IV. Seed Supplies
   V. Growout
   References
5. Commercial Culture of Decapod Crustaceans
   I. Historical Development and General Introduction
   II. Biology of Decapods as Related to Culture
   III. Culture of Shrimps and Prawns
   IV. Culture of Anomurans
   V. Culture of Crabs
   VI. Culture of Macruran Reptantia-The Lobsters and Their Kin
   VII. Summary and Perspectives
   References
   Taxonomic Index
   Subject Index