The Fishery

A list of the contents of this unit (though limited) is available.

See The Fishery in Rural System? ... Just Dreaming.

USGS Announces Online Access to Nationwide Fish Community Data

Data on fish communities are now available for 960 stream sites in more than 50 major river basins across the Nation. More than 1,900 fish community samples, collected from 1993 through 2002 by the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, can be downloaded from http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/data. USGS fish community samples document the presence of all fish species and their relative abundances within designated stream reaches.

These fish data are part of the NAWQA Data Warehouse, which also provides online access to 8 million records of water-quality information, enabling water-resource managers, scientists, and the public to find data about the quality of water or chemical concentrations in aquatic tissue at 4,100 stream sites and 6,500 wells across the United States.

2008 - AFS created a spell checker to add Fish names to your MS Word spell checker

See later, terrestrial herbicides, Balance Pro, the product's active chemical, isoxaflutole. found in surface water: In Michigan: http://www.freep.com/news/mich/nherb18_20030318.htm
and thiobencarb In Sacramento rice cultivation: http://www.appeal-democrat.com/archive/2003/031503/031503hpkrice.shtml

Invertebrates - ITIS nomenclature

Study implications of : "Quality of fish from catch to consumer: Labelling, monitoring and traceability," edited by J.B. Luten, J. Oehlenschlager and G. Olafsdottir, available in 2003.

In this book, for the first time, scientists from various disciplines and all partners in the fishery chain address the important issues of quality labelling, monitoring and traceability of fish.

A range of contributions on labelling systems, industrial standards, awards and certification procedures for the quality of fish are included.An overview on consumer research on fish in Europe is presented. In addition papers are covering consumer's responses to fresh fish, the evaluation of a promotion campaign for seafood consumption and consumer's opinions towards farmed fish, health and food safety.

The implications of quality labels for the consumers and the influence on their buying decision process are addressed.Two papers discussing labelling, price and packaging as value indicators and the product differentiation for shellfish complete the book.

Quality of Fish from Catch to Consumer: Labelling, Monitoring and Traceability
Edited by J.B. Luten, J. Oehlenschlager and G. Olafsdottir
456 pages - hardcover - ISBN 90 76998 14 0 - 85 euro
More information, like the table of contents, can be found on
www.wageningenacademic.com/fish
A.F.M. Jacobs, Wageningen Academic Publishers