Fish Conservation: A Guide to Understanding and Restoring Global Aquatic Biodiversity and Fishery Resources offers, for the first time in a single volume, a readable reference with a global approach to marine and freshwater fish diversity and fishery resource issues.
Gene Helman, professor emeritus of UGA’s former Institute of Ecology, brings together knowledge on the decline and restoration of freshwater and marine fishes, providing ecologically sound answers to biodiversity declines as well as to fishery management problems at the subsistence, recreational and commercial levels.
Fish Conservation summarizes the current state of knowledge about the degradation and restoration of diversity among fishes and the productivity of fishery resources, pointing out areas where progress has been made and where more needs to be done. Solutions focus on the application of ecological knowledge to solving practical problems, recognizing that effective biodiversity conservation depends on meeting human needs through management that focuses on long-term sustainability and an ecosystem perspective.
