All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments are examined, including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues. Natural resources and fisheries are emphasized, with comprehensive sections on latest fishing methods, statistics, aquaculture, food technology, productivity, conservation, and marketing.
Abstracts cover laboratory studies of aquatic organisms as well as research in the field.
All types of source documents dealing with aquatic organisms and issues that affect their environment are surveyed. A hierarchic subject classification, with multiple indexes, enables location of specific information. Major areas of coverage include law, policy, economics, social sciences, biology, microbiology, botany, invertebrate biology, malacology, carcinology, entomology, chordate biology, ichthyology, ornithology, mammalogy, aquatic ecology, autecology, population studies, aquatic communities, productivity, ecosystems, species interactions, fouling and boring, fisheries, aquaculture, fishable stocks, and the utilization of aquatic products and their marketing and economics. Valid Harvard ID required.