September 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



89 



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 OBTAINED FROM THE ORGANIZATION ISSUING THEM. 



BUT USUALLY MAY BE 



pp., printed in English. January 1966, Kr. 25.00 

 (about US$3.61). Conseil Permanent International 

 pour I'Exploration de la Mer, Charlottenlund Slot, 

 Denmark. This publication provides these general 

 statistical tables: total value and quantity of the 

 sea -fisheries in the different countries; quantity and 

 value of fish landed by all countries 1963; special 

 tables: quantity of fish landed by some countries 

 in 1963 for which data concerning the fishing activ- 

 ity (effort) in 1963 are available; percentages of the 

 total quantity of the different species caught in the 

 North Sea by trawl, Danish seine, line and other 

 gear respectively 1963; monthly tables: monthly 

 quantities landed from the North Sea 1963; monthly 

 data on the herring fisheries 1963. 



ECUADOR: 



Apuntes e Informaciones Sob re la Situacion de la Pro - 

 duccion Pesquera Ecuatoriana ^ Sus Mercados (In- 

 formation on the Situation of Ecuadorean Fishery 

 Production and Its Markets), by Domingo Quiroga 

 and Anibal Orbes Armas, Boletin Informativo, vol. 

 1, no. 3, 1964, 31 pp. printed in Spanish. Instituto 

 Nacional de Pesca del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 



EELS: 

 "The early development of the spotted worm eel 

 Myrophis punctatus Liitken (Ophichthidae)," by Bon- 

 nie Eldred, Immature Vertebrates Leaflet Series, 

 vol. IV, part 1 (Pisces), no. 1, May 1, 1966, 13 pp., 

 illus., processed. Florida Board of Conservation, 

 Marine Laboratory, Bayboro Harbor, St. Peters- 

 burg, Fla. 



EL SALVADOR: 

 Foreign Trade Regulations of El Salvador , Overseas 

 Business Reports, OBR 66-17, 8 pp., printed, Apr. 

 1966, 15 cents. Bureau of International Commerce, 

 Washington, D. C. (For sale by Superintendent of 

 Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 20402, and by Department of Commerce 

 field offices in principal cities in the United States.) 



FAUNA: 

 "Abdominal section of Panulirus a rgus, " by Jean 

 Williams, Invertebrate Fauna Leaflet Series, vol. 3, 

 no. 1, Sept. 1, 1966, 4 pp., illus., processed. Flor- 

 ida Board of Conservation, Marine Laboratory, Bay- 

 boro Harbor, St. Petersburg, Fla. 



FINLAND: 

 Forandringar hos Fiskmuskelproteiner vid Nedfry- 

 s ningen och deras Inhibering med Hjalp av Fosfater 

 (Under sbkning av reaktionsmekanismen med hjalp 

 av tracerteknik)--Changes in Fish Proteins in Freez- 

 ing and Their Inhibition with Phosphates (Research 

 of the reaction mechanism with tracer technique), 

 by Taina Kuusi, Olavi E. Nikkila, and Riitta Kytokan- 

 gas, Sarja IV--Kemia 78, 1965, 11 pp., illus., print- 

 ed in Finnish with English summary. Valtion Tek- 

 nillinen Tutkimuslaitos, The State Institute for Tech- 

 nical Research, Helsinki, Finland. 



FISHERY BIOLOGY: 

 On tjie Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations , by 

 R. J. H. Beverton and S. J. Holt, Fishery Investiga- 

 tions Series II, vol. XIX, 533 pp., illus., printed, 

 1957, US$25.00. Sales Section, British Information 

 Service, 845 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022. 



More and more nations are turnijig to the sea for 

 food and industrial products. As a result, harvest- 

 ing of the sea's resources has been intensified. This 

 means that in order to conserve those resources for 

 maximum sustainable yield for this generation and 

 those that are to follow, it will be necessary to solve 

 the many problems of regulation. The authors of this 

 book point out that there are solutions to problems of 

 fishery regulation provided the right data are avail- 

 able. If the data are not available, this book shows 

 what data are needed. Mathematics is, of course, the 

 basis for many of the methods advocated by the au- 

 thors, but they have written for non-mathenaaticians 

 by explaining fully and illustrating generously. Al- 

 though directly relevant to the better use of the stocks 

 of fish in the North Sea, the book is not written on so 

 narrow a basis, but as a guide in conservation prob- 

 lems over a larger field. Part I deals with fundamen- 

 tals of the theory of fishing, illustrated by analysis of 

 a trawl fishery. Some .extensions of the simple theory 

 of fishing are covered in Part II. Explained in this 

 part are recruitment and egg-production; natural 

 mortality; fishing mortality and effort; growth and 

 feeding; spatial variation in the values of parameters; 

 and mixed populations. Part III explains estimation 

 of parameters. Part IV discusses the use of theoret- 

 ical models in a study of the dynamics and reaction 

 to exploitation Of fish populations. Included in Part 

 rV are: principles and methods of fishery regulation; 

 attainment of the objectives of optimum fishing; and 

 the regulation of an international fishery. The appen- 

 dices contain tables; list of symbols and their defini- 

 tions; and derivations of indices of total European 

 fishing effort on North Sea plaice and haddock during 

 the prewar period. The book concludes with a bibli- 

 ography and author index, and a good subject index. 

 Although published in 1957, it is still available and 

 should be a basic reference for biologists, scientists, 

 and fishery administrators dealing with prediction of 

 fishery resources in the high-seas and the regulation 

 of fisheries exploited by several nations. 



--J. Pileggi 



FISHERY RESEARCH: 

 An Annotated Listing of the Fish Reference Collection 

 at the Florida Board of Conservation Marine Labora- 

 tory7 by Martin A. Moe, Jr., and others. Special Sci- 

 entific Report No. 10 (Contribution No. 99), 121 pp., 

 processed. May 1966. Florida Board of Conservation, 

 Marine Laboratory, Maritime Base, Bayboro Harbor, 

 St. Petersburg, Fla. 



FISH FARMING: 

 Warm - Water Ponds for Fishing , by W. W. Neely, 

 Verne E. Davison, and Lawrence V. Compton, Farm- 

 ers' Bulletin 2210, 16 pp., illus., printed. May 1965, 

 10 cents. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. (For sale by Superintendent of Documents, 

 U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 

 20402.) A pond that provides good fishing is a prof- 

 itable and pleasant feature of a farm or ranch. This 

 bulletin is specific only for "warm-water" ponds-- 

 not for "cool-water" or "cold-water" ponds. It points 

 out the importance of site, erosion control, proper 

 stocking, adequate fertility, and weed control. It ex- 

 plains how to manage a warm -water pond for prof- 

 itable fishing. 



