FISH AND FISHERIES OF INDIA. By V.G. Jhingran. Revised and enlarged third edition.

(1975) 1997 revised 3rd edition reprint. 4to (219 x 287mm). Ppxxiii,727. Colour and b/w plates, illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"The present third edition of the book has been considerably revised, enlarged, re-designed and re-set. Many additions have been made in the data, apart from updating various statistics in the field of capture fisheries as well as export of marine products. In order to delineate cataclysmic changes witnessed recently in the fishery technology, many entirely new features have been added, e.g. management of the beel fisheries of north-eastern part of India, fish feeds and their formulation, fish genetics, integrated aquaculture with agriculture, livestock, horticulture and sericulture, fisheries education in India, management of EEZ and role of satellite imagery in fishery development, etc. Recent advances in fish reproduction biology have also been portrayed. The book presents the latest information in the time-saving form of numerous tables, graphs and maps. It is also profusely illustrated with single and multi-coloured plates and line illustrations."