China Natural Resources Series: Fisheries Volume

Author: China Natural Resources Series Editorial Committee
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Publish Date: 1995-05-01
Features: The main content of this book includes: the natural and physicochemical environment of inland waters, shallow coastal areas, and adjacent waters to China's four major seas, including geology, topography, water area characteristics, climate, hydrology, and water chemistry conditions; secondly, the biological environment of fishery resources, including phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthic organisms, and pelagic organisms; human activities affecting changes in fishery resources, including fishing itself such as self-pollution and overexploitation, as well as the harm caused by indiscriminate fishing; it also includes pollution and damage to aquatic environments and ecological systems caused by pesticides, fertilizers, mining, petroleum, chemical industry, salt industry, shipping, reclamation, water conservancy facilities, and tourism; the third is the systematic composition and type distribution of fishery resources, resource assessment and current status of development and utilization, discussions on major resource species and their characteristics, and resource zoning; finally, discussions on issues related to the development strategy of China's fishery resource utilization, including the demand and guarantee level of fishery resources, the potential for increase and countermeasures, as well as the utilization and protection of fishery resources.