Biodiversität & Ökotrophologie

Salmonella

Chris Bell / Alec Kyriakides

Human illness attributed to foodborne pathogenic microorganisms has been prominent in the mass media in recent years. The Practical Food Microbiology Series has been devised to give practical and ...

Krill

Krill, or euphausiids, a group of immense importance in marine ecosystems, comprises over 80 species, most of which are planktonic. Krill are widespread with species to be found in all the oceans ...

Food Intake in Fish

The intake of food by fishes is an area of study that is of great importance to the applied sciences of fisheries and aquaculture for a number of reasons. For example a thorough knowledge of facto...

Salmonid Fishes

Vladimir T. Omelchenko / Yuri P. Altukhov / Elena A. Salmenkova

This important title encompasses features of genetic processes in complexly organised population systems of salmonids, one of the most commercially valuable families of fish worldwide. Translated ...

Food Industry and the Internet

Drew Smith

Who is making money on the Web and who is losing it? This book brings together the first two hundred and fifty stories to appear on the revolutionary food industry intelligence service efoodnews.c...

Effects of Pollution on Fish

The impact of pollution on fisheries and the potential health implications of eating contaminated fish are areas of considerable concern for the fishing and aquaculture communities, government bod...

Trout & Salmon

Trevor Crisp

This important book contains a great wealth of practical information on trout and salmon, species of fish that are of huge scientific and commercial interest. The introductory chapters of Trout an...

Goldfish Varieties and Genetics

Joseph Smartt

The goldfish, Carassius auratus, a member of the Carp family, Cyprinidae, has been domesticated for many hundreds of years, as a food fish, a laboratory animal and now most important commercially,...

Oyster Culture

George C. Matthiessen

The oyster trade worldwide is of huge commercial importance, and the demand for high quality oysters is rising all the time. With wild stocks depleted, the ever-increasing multi-million dollar oys...

Practical Genetics for Aquaculture

C. Greg Lutz

Over recent years there have been major advances in the application of molecular, biotechnological and genetic techniques to a wide range of aquatic species. Until now, many working in a hands-on ...

Management of Shared Fish Stocks

Celebrating the centenary of the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) Fisheries Research Laboratory at Lowestoft, UK, this peer-reviewed, edited tome discusses four int...

Chemical Food Safety

Jim E. Riviere

<i>Chemical Food Safety: A Scientist's Perspective</i> introduces readers to the science of risk assessment as applied to food safety and offers relevant, current information on re...

Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey

<p><i>Profiles in the History of the U.S. Soil Survey</i> offers a broad-ranging collection of essays chronicling the development of the U.S. Soil Survey and its influence on the...

Cage Aquaculture

Malcolm C. M. Beveridge

Since the first edition of this book, 17 years ago, aquaculture has consolidated its position as an important means of producing food and as a contributor to global food security. Cage aquaculture...

Chemistry and Technology of Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices

Soft drinks and fruit juices are produced in almost every country in the world and their availability is remarkable. From the largest cities to some of the remotest villages, soft drinks are avail...

Cephalopods

Paul Rodhouse / Peter Boyle

Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, which form the marine mollusc group the cephalopods, are of great and increasing interest to marine biologists, physiologists, ecologists, environmental biologists...

Management and Ecology of Lake and Reservoir Fisheries

In this comprehensive edited book, international experts in fisheries management and ecology review and appraise the status of lake and reservoir fisheries, assessment of fisheries yields, trophic...

Food Safety in Shrimp Processing

Ronald A. Eckhardt / Laxman Kanduri

Systems of producing food in safer ways, including the use of the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) system are now being adopted widely throughout the world. The ever-growing global s...

Molluscan Shellfish Farming

Brian Spencer

As the world’s population and the demand for seafood increase, the production of seafood from aquaculture has also seen massive increase and is set to continue. With wild stocks of many mollusca...

Fishes and Forestry

Many species of fish occupying inland waters reside in watersheds that were or still are surrounded by forests and are dependent in major ways upon such cover. The interactions between fishes and ...