Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching

Introduction: Can the conditions for a successful enhancement or sea ranching be defined?; Section 1: Theoretical considerations: Recruitment limitation as the theoretical basis for stock enhancement; Ecological framework for enhancement potentials; Genetic considerations in enhancement and ranching of marine and anadromous species; Genetic diversity and the Norwegian sea ranching programme: an evaluation; Rationale for an experimental approach to stock enhancement with examples from Hawaii; Section 2: Geographic overviews: Marine ranching, a global perspective; Outline of sea farming in Japan; Effectiveness of Japan's stock enhancement programs: current perspectives; How can stock enhancement and sea ranching help sustain and increase coastal fisheries?; Section 3: Species studies: 3.1 Salmonides: Enhancement program and stock management of salmonid populations in Japan; Distribution, migration and growth in the North Pacific Ocean of Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) produced from the lacustrine form; May stocking programs effect the predator stocks and decrease the survival of the wild Atlantic salmon juveniles?; 3.2 Marine fish: Release strategy for Japanese flounder fry in stock enhanchement programs; Fish quality and stock effectiveness: behavioural approach; To what extent should stock enhancement be used to improve the finfish catch rates of Western Australian recreational fishers?; Enhancement of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) on the Faroe Island; Fjord-ranching of cod in Iceland: effects of a long-term experimental feeding on the nutritional condition and growth rate of wild cod (Gadus morhua L.) in a small fjord on the East coast of Iceland; Enahcnement studies of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) in an exposed coastal area in western Norway; Enhancement studies of coastal cod (Gadus morhua L.) in Nord-Trondelag, Norway; Sea-ranching of Atlantic cod (GAdus morhua L.): effects of release strategy on survival; Migration, growth and survival in stocked and wild cod (Gadus morhua L.) in the Vestfjord region, north Norway; Movement pattern and growth of hatchery-reared and wild cod (Gadus morhua) in a high0latitude enhancement area; Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo as predators in a cod Gadus morhua enhancement area in north Norway; Anti-predator behaviour in hatchery-reared and wild juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.), and the effects of predator training; 3.3 Crustaceans: Approaches to reseeding penaeid prawns; Research and development of prawn stock enhancement programs in Taiwan; Northern Adriatic beachrock outcrops: restocking and enhancing depleted stocks of European lobster, Homarus gammarus (L.) (Decapoda, Nephropidae); Stock enhancement of European lobster (Homarus gammarus); A large-scale experiment off the south-western Norway (Kvitsoy); 3.4 Molluscs and other invertebrates: Scallop seabed cultivation in Europe; Restocking of giant clams: progress, problems and potential. (Part contents)