Class Resources

Class Readings

Lecture 1.

Iwama, G.K. The welfare of fish. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 75:155-158. (Required)

Lecture 2.

Holmlund C., and M. Hammer. 1999. Ecosystem services generated by fish populations. Ecological Economics. 29:253-268. (Required) [PDF]

Lecture 3.

Kennelly, S.J., and M.K. Broadhurst. 2002. By-catch begone: changes in. the philosophy of fishing technology. Fish and Fisheries. 3:340-355. (Required) [PDF]

Hall, S.J., and B.M. Mainprize. 2005. Managing by-catch and discards: how much progress are we making and how can we do better? Fish and Fisheries 6:134-155. (Required) [PDF]

Cooke, S.J., and I.G. Cowx. 2006. Contrasting recreational and commercial fishing: searching for common issues to promote unified conservation of fisheries resources and aquatic environments. Biological Conservation. 128:93-108. (Supplemental)

Electrofishing Resource [PDF; 252KB].

Week 8 Readings:

1) Cooke, S.J., S.G. Hinch, M. Wikelski, R.D. Andrews, T.G. Wolcott, and P.J. Butler.  2004.Biotelemetry: a mechanistic approach to ecology.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:334-343.[ pdf, 1.66 MB ]

2) Block, B.A., S.L.H. Teo, A. Walli, A. Boustany, M.J.W. Stokesbury, C.J. Farwell, K.C. Weng, H. Dewar, and T.D. Williams. 2005. Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Nature 434: 1121-1127. [pdf, 599 KB]

Listing of Fisheries Text Books - Most are available from the Carleton Library.

Barton, M. 2006. Bond's Biology of Fishes. Brooks Cole, California.

An updated version of a "classic". Good introductory text on fish biology.

Diana, J.S. 1995. Biology and Ecology of Fishes, 1st Edition. Cooper Publishers, Michigan.

I think a new edition has just come out; Good introductory text.

Helfman, G.S. 2007. Fish Conservation : A Guide to Understanding and Restoring Global Aquatic Biodiversity and Fishery Resources. Island Press, USA.

A global approach to marine and freshwater fish diversity and fishery resource issues.

Moyle, P.B., and J.J. Cech. 2003. Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology. Benjamin Cummings, California.

Comprehensive text on the biology of fishes; Much of the early lecture material covered our course is based on this text.

Murphy, B.R., and D.W.E. Willis. 1996. Fisheries Techniques. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda.

"Techniques" based book viewed as the resource for practicing fisheries scientists.

Ross, M.R. 1996. Fisheries Conservation and Management, 1st Edition. Prentice Hall, New York

Somewhat dated; Includes information on fish, their habitats, and people who fish for them as well as the associated management and conservation issues and approaches.

Wootton, R.J. 1999. Ecology of Teleost Fishes, 2nd Edition. Springer, New York.

Book focuses on the responses of individual fish to their environment and the consequences of these responses for the population and community to which the individuals belong.