Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations New Fisheries Book- HOT off the press

The American Fisheries Society has just released their new book entitled Analysis and Interpretation of Freshwater Fisheries Data.

I can remember my major professor working on a chapter for this book nearly 10 years ago.

For those interested, it can be ordered at http://www.afsbooks.org

From the AFS site: "This long-awaited text is an excellent companion to AFS's Fisheries Techniques because it provides a frame of reference for appropriate sample design, analysis, and interpretation of freshwater fisheries data. The chapters are organized by fish and fisheries data types, including recruitment, mortality, biotelemetry, habitat, and predator-prey interactions, within major topic areas, such as population dynamics, fish biology, and community assessment.

Chapters contain subsections describing the data type(s), indices, appropriate and alternative statistical approaches, applications, summary, and references. Statistical tests are nestled within chapters to allow the reader to connect analyses to data types. Box examples allow the reader to easily follow the analysis method. The companion CD contains example data sets and programs so the reader can run the analyses, as outlined in the box examples."

If a contributor worked on a chapter of this book 10 years ago, and it is just published, then it is not current, because a lot of things have changed in ten years.

It's current. The conceptual project began nearly 10 years ago. Updates, my man...updates.

Have you seen the book Shawn ? AFS also has a new book on Bluegill Biology and Behavior which is an outstanding book.

Eric,

I just ordered a copy today. I'm assuming that it will be a great book to have as a reference, but I will let you know once a receive my copy and get a chance to thumb through it. Interestingly, I also saw the Bluegill book when I placed my order today, but I did not order it. In fact, I wasn't aware of the Bluegill book prior to today. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll go ahead and order it.

Thanks and let me know about about your new purchase. In the meantime I will see what I can find out about it.

Well, Ewest, I can tell you that one of the two coeditors is a professor with an office next to mine at SDSU, and the other got his Ph.D. at SDSU and now teaches at Montana State University.

Folks, this is the mathematical side of our profession, and this book will really be important for students and biologists. You have to be very, very serious about this stuff to wade through the math. And I'm saying that in a positive way!!