FISHING WITH ELECTRICITY: ITS APPLICATION TO BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT. Contributions to a symposium. Edited by R. Vibert.

1967 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Ppxxviii,276. B/w plates and illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

The proceedings of a symposium on electric fishing arranged by the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC), a subsidiary body of the Food and Agriculture Organization, in Belgrade in 1966. "...electricity is now a recognised and efficient tool for estimating the size and composition of fish populations, influencing their movements, securing samples for study and even for catching them commercially. Here then is a book written by experts for fishery scientists, fishery managers, fishermen and administrators. It is a book which not only summarises the situation of electric fishing in fresh water but also reviews the status of basic research in electro-physiology and applied electric fishing and identifies gaps in knowledge requiring further research. ...Part I of this book is made up of a general report of a working party which was held prior to the symposium on electric fishing. Part II groups 14 papers which were studied by the symposium and which are sub-divided into four sections as follows: 1. Electrophysiology of fish. 2. Electric fishing practice and questions connected with its efficiency. 3. Electric screens and guides. 4. Miscellaneous papers including an annotated bibliography of Soviet literature on fishing."