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Title Scallops : biology, ecology and aquaculture / edited by Sandra E. Shumway, G. Jay Parsons
Edition Second edition
Published Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2006

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 W'BOOL  639.4811 Shu/Sbe 2006  AVAILABLE
Description xxxix, 1460 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Series Developments in aquaculture and fisheries science, 0167-9309 ; 35
Developments in aquaculture and fisheries science. 0167-9309 ; 35
Contents 1. New phylogenies of the pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia): reconciling morphological and molecular approaches -- 2. Development, physiology, behaviour and ecology of scallop larvae -- 3. Structure and function in scallops -- 4. Scallop adductor muscles: structure and function -- 5. Neurobiology and behaviour of the scallop -- 6. Reproductive physiology aquaculture -- 7. Physiology: energy acquisition and utilisation -- 8. Physiological integrations and energy partitioning -- 9. Nutrition in pectinids -- 10. Genetics -- 11. Diseases and parasites of scallops -- 12. Scallop ecology: distributions and behaviour -- 13. Scallops and marine contaminants -- 14. Dynamics, assessment and management of exploited natural populations -- 15. Fisheries sea scallop, placopecten magellanicus -- 16. Sea scallop aquaculture in the northwest Atlantic -- 17. Bay scallop and calico scallop fisheries, culture and enhancement in eastern North America -- 18. Scallops of the west coast of North American -- 19. The European scallop fisheries for Pecten maximus, Aequipecten opercularis and Mimachlamys varia -- 20. European aquaculture -- 21. Scandinavia -- 22. Japan -- 23. Scallop culture in China -- 24. Scallops fisheries and aquaculture of northwestern Pacific, Russian Federation -- 25. Scallop aquaculture and fisheries in Brazil -- 26. Argentina -- 27. Scallop fishery and aquaculture in Chile -- 28. Venezuela -- 29. Mexico -- 30. Scallop fisheries. Mariculture and enhancement in Australia -- 31. New Zealand
Notes Previous ed.: 1991
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Scallop culture.
Scallop fisheries.
Scallops.
Scallops -- Ecology.
Author Shumway, Sandra E.
Parsons, G. Jay.
LC no. 90029856
ISBN 9780444504821
0444504826