In the book, “Harvesting Aquatic Resources”, the harvesting of living aquatic resources, directly or indirectly useful to man has been dealt, with special reference to fish, crustaceans and sea weeds, consumed directly by the mankind. Besides, describing the ancient methods of capture of these aquatic animals and the gradual evolution of fishing methods and gears the biotic communities with respect to their habitat, mode of life and migration pattern, the principles and operation of today’s fishing gears and methods have been outlined in details in the book. Efficient fishing methods and the highest advancements with the advent of mechanisation of fishing crafts in modern times, leading to dramatic increase in fishery production have find place in the book. New ways of capturing fish by employing a single pole electric current to form a sort of abstract net, and sophisticated ideas with highly automated equipments, some of which are still engineering dreams, may bring revolution in obtaining greater catch per unit time of actual fishing in future, have been discussed in the book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K P Biswas
K.P. Biswas, M.Sc., Ph.D., D.F.Sc. (Bom), Fisheries (L-I), Principal, Fisheries Training Institute, Government of Orissa, part time lecturer in fisheries college, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Manager fisheries Orissa Maritime and Chilka Area Development Corporation, Bhubaneswar, Director of Fisheries, Adnaman and Nicobar Island, Visiting Professor, University of Fisheries and Animal Sciences, Govt. of West Bengal and at present as Visiting Professor of Marine Science Department , Calcutta University has been associated with fish and fisheries science and its development for more than 46 years. He has specialized in electro fisheries, sea fishing, fish breeding and industrial fisheries and has published 125 research papers, review papers, and articles on fish and fisheries, besides publishing seven book in the field of fisheries. The author has worked as a member of the Fact Finding Committee of Chilka Lake Fisheries, appointed by the Hon'ble High court of Orissa and also as a member of the Expert Committee of Government of Orissa on the environmental impact of trawl fishery on the coastal ecology and extuaries with special reference to migration and nesting of Olive Redley turtles in Orissa coast. He is now actively engaged as a Fellow Member and Vice President of Zoological Society, Kolkata, Fellow Member of Indian Association of Biological Sciences life Member of Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Science News Assocation, Bangiya Bignan Parisad, Centre for Applied Science and Technology and published about fifty articles and research papers on fisheries and aquatic environment and marine ecology between 1993 to 2003.
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