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Intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses as well as for practicing fisheries professionals, this edition (first, 1983) provides an introduction to the ways in which fisheries data are collected. Some issues covered in the volume's 22 chapters include planning for sampling; data management and statistical techniques; care and handling of sampled organisms; passive and active capture techniques; acoustic assessment of fish abundance and distribution; determination of age and growth; advances in underwater biotelemetry; and measuring the human dimensions of recreational fisheries. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
