Flatfishes is the only comprehensive and current book in the field and responds to the economic importance and growing body of research.

Flatfishes provides:

• Outlines of systematics, distribution, reproduction, recruitment, ecology and behaviour
• Descriptions of the major fisheries and their management
• Full coverage of recent advances in aquaculture and stock enhancement

Contents

1. Systematic Diversity of the Pleuronectiformes
2. Distributions and Biogeography
3. Ecology of Reproduction
4. The Planktonic Stages of Flatfishes: Physical and Biological Interactions in Transport Processes
5. Recruitmentt
6. Age and Growth
7. Ecology of the Juvenile and Adult Stages of Flatfishes: Distribution and Dynamics of Habitat Associations
8. The Trophic Ecology of Flatfishes
9. Behavior of Flatfishes
10. Atlantic Flatfish Fisheries
11. Pacific Flatfish Fisheries
12. Tropical Flatfish Fisheries
13. Assessment and Management of Flatfish Stocks
14. Aquaculture and Stock Enhancement

Index

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