Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries

By: S.J. Blaber

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Hardcover | 30 June 1997

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Tropical estuaries are among the most modified and threatened of aquatic environments, supporting innumerable fisheries essential to the regions in which they occur. This text provides readers with an understanding of the fish, the environments in which they live, and the management of biologically healthy estuaries and sustainable fisheries. The book should be of interest to those involved with work in tropical and sub-tropical estuaries and in the management of fisheries in other ecosystems, as well as to fisheries scientists, fish biologists, aquatic biologists, ecologists and environmental scientists.

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Series foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Research challenges	p. 3
Definitions	p. 4
Geographical extent	p. 5
Tropical estuaries and humans	p. 7
Tropical estuaries and their habitats	p. 9
Open estuaries	p. 9
Estuarine coastal waters	p. 24
Blind estuaries	p. 27
Coastal lakes	p. 30
Physical factors influencing the nature of tropical estuaries	p. 38
Catastrophic events	p. 42
The fishes of tropical estuaries	p. 45
Diversity and pattern of life cycles	p. 47
Species assemblages	p. 52
Major similarities and differences in the fish faunas	p. 106
Physical factors affecting distribution	p. 111
Habitats and structure	p. 113
Salinity	p. 125
Turbidity	p. 129
Water movements	p. 135
Synthesis and conclusions	p. 138
Feeding ecology and trophic structure	p. 147
Feeding specializations	p. 148
Ontogenetic changes in diets	p. 150
Flexibility in diets	p. 156
Trophic levels among estuarine fishes	p. 161
Food webs	p. 175
Reproduction and spawning	p. 185
Modes of reproduction	p. 186
Reproductive characteristics of major taxa	p. 199
Ichthyoplankton	p. 212
Estuarine dependence	p. 215
Regional considerations	p. 215
Evolutionary perspectives	p. 218
Advantages and disadvantages of an estuarine phase in the life cycle	p. 221
Conclusions	p. 230
Estuarine fisheries	p. 233
Production and productivity	p. 234
Types of fisheries	p. 237
Management	p. 258
Human impacts	p. 265
Effects of industry	p. 266
Effects of agriculture	p. 276
Effects of dams and weirs	p. 278
Habitat loss	p. 281
Effects of residential canal estates and marinas	p. 284
Mass mortality of fishes	p. 286
Conservation of tropical estuaries	p. 291
References	p. 297
Taxonomic index	p. 337
Geographic index	p. 355
Subject index	p. 363
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