Description

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Fascinating and instantly recognizable, flatfishes are unique intheir asymmetric postlarval body form. With over 800 extant speciesrecognized and a distribution stretching around the globe, thesefishes are of considerable research interest and provide a majorcontribution to commercial and recreational fisheries worldwide.This second edition of Flatfishes Biology andExploitation has been completely revised, updated and enlargedto respond to the ever-growing body of research. It provides:

- Overviews of systematics, distribution, life historystrategies, reproduction, recruitment, ecology and behaviour
- Descriptions of the major fisheries and theirmanagement
- An assessment of the synergies between ecological andaquaculture research of flatfishes.

Carefully compiled and edited by four internationally-knownscientists and with chapters written by many world leaders in thefield, this excellent new edition of a very popular and successfulbook is essential reading for fish biologists, fisheriesscientists, marine biologists, aquaculture personnel, ecologists, environmental scientists, and government workers in fisheries andfish and wildlife departments. Flatfishes: Biology andExploitation, Second Edition, should be found in all libraries ofresearch establishments and universities where life sciences, fishbiology, fisheries, aquaculture, marine sciences, oceanography, ecology and environmental sciences are studied and taught.

Reviews of the First Edition

- A solid, up-to-date book that advanced students andresearch scientists with interests in fish biology will findinteresting and useful. Aquaculture International
- A data-rich book that outlines much of what you might everwant to know about flatfishes. Fish & Fisheries
- Well presented with clear illustrations and a valuablesource of information for those with a general interest in fishecology or for the more specialist reader. You should make surethat your library has a copy. J Fish Biology
- An excellent and very practical overview of the whole, global flatfish scene. Anyone interested in flatfish at whicheverstage of the economic food chain should invest in a copyimmediately. Ausmarine
- Because of the high quality of each chapter, written byinternational experts, it is a valuable reference. Reviews inFish Biology and Fisheries

About the Author

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Robin N. Gibson is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Scotland. His lifetime research interests have been in the ecology and behaviour of intertidal and shallow water marine fishes. Richard D.M. Nash is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway. His research is mainly concerned with recruitment processes and the early life history dynamics of marine fishes. He has particular research interests in the dynamics of nursery grounds. Audrey J. Geffen is a professor in the Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway. Her research is primarily concerned with fish growth in natural and culture environments. A significant aspect of her work involves theoretical and applied research on the growth and formation of fish otoliths, analysing the structure and composition as a record of life history. Henk W. van der Veer is a senior scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands. His main research topics are related to fish recruitment, concentrating on flatfishes and the functioning of coastal nursery areas. His work is strongly focussed on field observations supported by and embedded in ecological theory, especially the Dynamic Energy Budget theory.