Handbook of Salmon Farming

Selina M. Stead and Lindsay Laird

Salmon farming is an international success story, but it is an industry that faces challenges, and times of change. This essential handbook provides an integrated and multidisciplinary insight into the complex and highly-competitive business of salmon farming. Specialists actively involved in all stages of salmon farming, from egg to market, explain fundamental theory and offer practical advice. This book would appeal to anyone interested in the realities of the farmed salmon industry. It presents a holistic view of how the environment and stock can be managed in a sustainable way, and how this, coupled with a market focus, leads to greater financial returns and stability.

This is a book for everyone working in the industry, professionals, researchers and students alike.

Table of Contents:

Biology of salmon (Monty Priede)
Production I: Broodstock management and early freshwater stages (Robert B. Kindness)
Production II: From egg to market size: onrearing in freshwater and marine environments (Richard Fitzgerald, Sigurd O. Stefansson, Dave Garforth and Sandra Irwin)
Fish farming and the feed companies (Robert Sinnott)
Post-harvest handing and processing (Peter Howgate)
Marketing farmed salmon (Patty Clayton and Audrey Sheal)
Economic and business issues (Roy Sutherland and Patty Clayton)
Risk assessment and management for salmon farmers (Lindsay Laird and Chris Kennedy)
Environmental considerations and legislative control of marine salmon farming (Malcolm Thomson and Jonathan Side)
Health and disease in Atlantic salmon farming (Tony Ellis)
Advances in fish immunology (C.J. Secombes)
Genetic management (Eric Verspoor and Beatriz Villanueva)
Integrated management of salmon farming areas (Selina Stead)

Extent: 544 pages
Binding: hardback
Publication Date: January 2002
ISBN: 978-1-85233-119-1

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