The Lost Fleet: A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster by St. Martin's Press $25.95
It's the mid-19th century and the American whaling fleet, the wonder and envy of the maritime nations of the world, is struck by one hammer blow after another. Yankee whalers are contending with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, and disease. Now conditions are getting even worse, and the chances become ever slimmer a whaling master and his crew will return from a voyage...

Techniques in Aquatic Toxicology, Volume 2 by Gary K. Ostrander $226.95
Whether considering toxicant exposure in zebrafish, or the application of cellular diagnostics to marine toxicology, or the ecotoxicology of coral reef ecosystems, or the amount of metalloids in water, this reference offers the protocols for specimen collection that researchers need. Following up on his popular Techniques in Aquatic Toxicology with a second volume, now nine years later, Dr....

Fundamentals Of Aquatic Toxicology: Effects, Environmental Fate And Risk Assessment by Gary M. Rand $109.95
This text is divided into three parts. The first part describes basic toxicological concepts and methodologies used in aquatic toxicity testing, including the philosophies underlying testing strategies now required to meet and support regulatory standards.The second part of the book discusses various factors that affect transport, transformation, ultimate distribution, and accumulation of...

Herring: A History of the Silver Darlings by Tempus $22.00
For over two millennia, herring has been commercially caught, and its importance to the coastal peoples of Britain cannot be measured. At one point tens of thousands were involved in the catching, processing, and sale of herring. They followed the shoals around the coast from Stornoway to Penzance and many towns on Britain’s East Coast grew rich on the backs of the "silver darlings." This book...

Large Marine Ecosystems of the Pacific Rim by K. Sherman $77.00
The Pacific Rim - a vast area of the globe taking in one third of the world's population and a diversity of economic, climatic and ecological conditions - is also one of the fastest developing. The imbalance between short-term economic gain and longer-term socioeconomic benefit is diminishing the value of the marine resources of the Pacific Rim at a critical point in time. Human interventions and...

Fisheries: Harvesting Life from Water by

Flagship: A history of fisheries at the University of Washington by Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co

Fisheries: Harvesting Life from Water by Frederick G. Johnson $24.95

Biology Of Sharks And Their Relatives by CRC Press I Llc

Food for Thought : A Brief History of the Future of Fisheries' Management by Challenger Scallop Enhancement Company
Food for Thought is the story of the remarkable turnaround in the health and productivity of New Zealand’s Southern Scallop Fishery. After years of overfishing, the Southern Scallop Fishery faltered, crashed and was eventually closed in the early 1980s. It’s a scenario all too common in fisheries around the world. What makes the Southern Scallop Fishery unique is the fishers’ approach...