Tim D. Smith

Scaling Fisheries

The Science of Measuring the Effects of Fishing, 1855 1955

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 1994 book, Tim Smith examines the economic and political pressures which have affected fisheries science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9780521390323
• ISBN-10: 052139032X
• Artikelnr.: 22727151

Autorenporträt

TIM D. SMITH is a licensed minister of the gospel and a retired fisheries biologist who has worked with several national and international Christian and scientific organizations. He has taught at the University of Hawaii and conducted scientific research at U. S. NOAA Fisheries laboratories, and currently ministers at Bethel Church in Redding, California. He is especially interested in the history of commercial fishing (especially whaling) and in the ways science and Christianity can interact to reveal God's creation.

Inhaltsangabe

Frontispiece; Acknowledgements; Units used in the text; Part I. Introduction: 1. Fluctuations, the very essence of ecosystems; Part II. Developing Methods, 1855
1940: 2. Research approaches, 1855
90; 3. Measuring the effect of fishing, 1890
1900; 4. The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, 1900
20; 5. Predicting fluctuations, 1920
30; 6. A priori methods, 1930
40; Part III. Three Partial Theories, 1940
55: 7. Middling in size; 8. How many parents are enough?; 9. Steady state yield; 10. Integration: self-regenerating populations and the bionomic ecosystem; Notes; References; Index of people; Subject index.