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.