American Fisheries Society

Analysis and interpretation of freshwater fisheries data. (CD-ROM included)

Guy (USGS, Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, Montana State U.) and Brown (Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries, South Dakota State U.) have edited the 18 chapters of this text and also wrote the first chapter, on science and statistics in fisheries research. The text — which will be useful to professionals as well as a textbook — demonstrates a variety of the analytical techniques possible in handling statistics in fisheries research. Individual chapter topics include fisheries management study design considerations, sampling and experimental design, recruitment, age and growth, mortality, and size structure. Bioenergetics, habitat, predators, and watershed levels are also topics. The contributors are fishery professionals and researchers in the US and Canada. The CD-ROM contains data and box examples corresponding to each chapter, using SAS software. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Bigheaded carps; a biological synopsis and environmental risk assessment.

In fact they are Asian carps, referred to commonly as silver carps, largescale silver carps and bighead carps. They come by those names honestly, but along with those names the appellations "invaders," "destroyers" and "spoilers." They largely escaped from aquaculture installations to settle in over 80 countries. They eat voraciously, starving out native fish, and they reproduce rapidly. In recent years they have invaded the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois River systems, and researchers fear they will invade the Great Lakes to devastating effect. This report describes the biology, habitat preferences, and potential range of each species, along with their uses by humans (as food but also as algae eaters) and current regulations. The closing chapter assesses the odds of the carps getting into the Great Lakes and the damage they can cause once there. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)