Fish Reproductive Biology

Tore Jakobsen , Senior scientist and marine biologist with experience from fish stock assessment and management advice. Employed by IMR since 1970. Head of Demersal Fish Section 1992-1998; Chair of the Advisory Committee on Fishery Management (ACFM) of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) 1999-2002; National Expert on Fisheries Research Projects at the European Commission (DG FISH) 2002-2006. Michael J Fogarty , Senior Scientist, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, head of the Ecosystem Assessment Program. Research interests and experience include climate effects on marine systems, fisheries ecology, and the dynamics of exploited fish and invertebrate populations. Bernard A. Megrey , NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Center, Seattle, USA. Research fisheries biologist with NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, where he has worked since 1982. Extensive experience studying the dynamics of exploited fish populations, relationships of the bio-physical environment to recruitment variability, stock assessment, and climate impacts on marine ecosystems. Erlend Moksness , Research Director, Institute of Marine Research, Norway. Fisheries biologist with background in recruitment in marine fish, fish ageing, stock enhancement of marine fishes and aquaculture of marine fishes.

Chapter 1. Introduction (Tore Jakobsen, Michael J. Fogarty, Bernard A. Megrey and Erlend Moksness). Section 1. Biology, population dynamics, and recruitment. Chapter 2. Recruitment in Marine Populations (Michael J. Fogarty and Loretta O'Brien). Chapter 3. Reproductive dynamics (D. Pavlov, N. Emel'yanova and G.G. Novikov). Chapter 4. Recruitment Variability (Edward D. Houde). Chapter 5. Effects of fishing on the population (Marie-Joelle Rochet). Section 2: Information critical to successful assessment and management. Chapter 6. Egg, larval and juvenile surveys (Nancy C.H. Lo, Paul E. Smith and Motomitsu Takahashi). Chapter 7. Stock identification (Gavin A. Begg and Steven X. Cadrin). Chapter 8. Stock assessment models and predictions of catch and biomass (John G. Pope). Chapter 9. Applied fish reproductive biology: contribution of individual reproductive. potential to recruitment and fisheries management (Olav S. Kjesbu). Section 3: Incorporation of reproductive biology and recruitment considerations into management advice and strategies. Chapter 10. Current paradigms and forms of advice (K. Cochrane). Chapter 11. Management: New Approaches to Old Problems (Carl O'Brien). Chapter 12. Implementing information on stock reproductive potential in fisheries management: the motivation, the challenges and the opportunities (C. Tara Marshall)