Genetics and Fish Breeding

An understanding of fish genetics and fish breeding is of vital importance to all those involved with fish farming, fisheries, fish breeding and the aquatic environment. This book represents a current review of all the principles of the genetics and breeding of fish. It examines the genetics behind breeding programmes in farmed fish such as carp, trout, salmon and tilapia as well as those of exotic aquarium fish such as koi and goldfish. The genetic implications of fishing activity on fish populations is discussed and the subject of biotechnological systems for introducing new genes into fish is reviewed. There is considerable commercial importance related to a sound understanding of the implications of many of the factors discussed within this book.