CONTENTS 



Preface ix 



INTRODUCTION .......... Xl 



THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF DIFFERENT KINDS 

 OF EXPLOITED ANIMALS 



PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE ATLANTIC 



HERRING {Clupea harengtis L.) with special reference to the north 



SEA. 



B. B. Parrish, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen .... 3 



PARAMETERS OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE POPULATIONS. 



D. A. Hancock & A. C. Simpson, Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham- 

 on-Crouch .......... 29 



the application of comparative population STUDIES TO FISHERY 

 BIOLOGY — AN EXPLORATION. 



S.]. Holt, Fisheries Division, F.A.O., Rome . . . .51 



ROE DEER CENSUS AND POPULATION ANALYSIS BY MEANS OF A MODIFIED 

 MARKING-RELEASE TECHNIQUE. 



J. Andersen, Vildtbiologisk Station, Kale, Denmark ... 72 

 EXPLOITED BIRD POPULATIONS 



POPULATION DYNAMICS AND THE EXPLOITATION OF DUCKS AND GEESE. 



H. Boyd, Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge 85 



FLUCTUATIONS IN A RED GROUSE {LagopUS SCOticUS Latham) POPULATION, 



1956-9. 



D.Jenkins & A.Watson, Natural History Department, Marischal 

 College, Aberdeen ......... 96 



FLUCTUATIONS IN A PARTRIDGE POPULATION. 



T. H. Blank & J. S. Ash, Game Research Station, Fordingbridge . 118 

 EXPLOITED MARINE MAMMAL POPULATIONS 



SOME EFFECTS OF WHALING ON THE SOUTHERN STOCKS OF BALEEN 

 WHALES. 



K. M.L2iWS, National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley . .137 

 POPULATION STUDIES ON THE MiNKE WHALE [Balaeuoptera acutorostrata 

 Lacepede). 



A. ]onsg2ird, Institute of Marine Biology, Oslo University . .159 



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