Thank you all for the suggestions/comments to my earlier posting regarding what
textbook to use for a Fisheries Biology course. Several of you were
interested in the responses I received, so what follows is a summation of those
responses.
In general, most have not found a single textbook that meets the needs of a
course like this. Rather, instructors have used several sources for their
course. Most have used chapters/material (plus outside readings from the
primary literature) from these books:
Fisheries biology: assessment and management (King, 1995)
Inland fisheries management in North America (Kohler & Hubert, 1999)
Ecology of teleost fishes (2nd ed, Wootton, 2006)
Some also felt that if a book was needed, students should be required to buy
Fisheries Techniques (ed. by Murphy & Willis, 1996). This would be a useful
resource for the laboratory and a great reference for the students long after
the course is done.
A few other books were suggested, but their steep cost makes them un-suitable
for a text. These books were:
Management of freshwater fisheries (Arrignon 1999, $95.00)
Inland fisheries: ecology and management (Welcomme 2001, $169.00)
Management and ecology of river fishes (Cowx 2000, $199.00)
Thank you for both the time and the suggestions everyone gave. I appreciate it.
- Pete
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Peter Koetsier, Ph.D.
Aquatic Ecologist
Dept. of Biology
Boise State University
1910 University Dr.
Boise, Idaho 83725-1515
USA
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