Publisher's Synopsis
With the advent of molecular biological techniques the genetics of fish stocks are of increasing importance in fisheries management. This text reviews these techniques and the ways in which they can be used in the population structure studies. This information should be useful in assessing how the genetic composition of fish can be observed or changed to optimize stocks.;This book should be of interest to fisheries biologists, fish biologists, population biologists, geneticists and personnel in aquaculture industry.