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Conservation Aquaculture: An Evolution-Based Approach for the Production of Fish for Aquaculture-Assisted Fisheries Programs

Conservation Aquaculture: An Evolution-Based Approach for the Production of Fish for Aquaculture-Assisted Fisheries Programs

Tave, Douglas

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 3031719778
ISBN13: 9783031719776
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 12 2025
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Stocking hatchery-produced fish has been a standard component of fisheries management for over 100 years. This book discusses the production of hatchery fish used in aquaculture-assisted fisheries programs to help stabilize and recover endangered species. For the most part, these programs have been unsuccessful, and a reason why is that the traditional approach to fish culture produces fish that are genetically and behaviorally ill-suited to help recover an imperiled species. The hatchery environment and management used to culture the fish makes them sub-viable in the wild. Even if most of the augmented fish die, survivors that mate with wild fish lower the fitness of the endangered population, making the conservation program counter-productive.

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