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A revelatory look at the secrets of marine fish migration.

Not since F. R. Harden Jones published his masterwork on fish migration in 1968 has a book so thoroughly demystified the subject. With stunning clarity, David Hallock Secor's Migration Ecology of Fishes finally penetrates the clandestine nature of marine fish migration.

Secor explains how the four decades of research since Jones's classic have employed digital-age technologies--including electronic miniaturization, computing, microchemistry, ocean observing systems, and telecommunications--that render overt the previously hidden migration behaviors of fish. Emerging from the millions of observed, telemetered, simulated, and chemically traced movement paths is an appreciation of the individual fish. Members of the same populations may stay put, explore, delay, accelerate, evacuate, and change course as they conditionally respond to their marine existence. But rather than a morass of individual behaviors, Secor shows us that populations are collectively organized through partial migration, which causes groups of individuals to embark on very different migration pathways despite being members of the same population.

Case studies throughout the book emphasize how migration ecology confounds current fisheries management. Yet, as Secor explains, conservation frameworks that explicitly consider the influence of migration on yield, stability, and resilience outcomes have the potential to transform fisheries management. A synthetic treatment of all marine fish taxa (teleosts and elasmobranchs), this book employs explanatory frameworks from avian and systems ecology while arguing that migrations are emergent phenomena, structured through schooling, phenotypic plasticity, and other collective agencies.

The book provides overviews of the following concepts:
* The comparative movement ecology of fishes and birds
* The alignment of mating systems with larval dispersal
* Schooling and migration as adaptations to marine food webs
* Natal homing
* Connectivity in populations and metapopulations
* The contribution of migration ecology to population resilience

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• 0 Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 0 Classifying Migration
• 0 Book Organization
• 2 Bird and Fish Migration
• 0 Movement in Fluids
• 0 Analysis of Movements and Migration
• 0 Rules of Aggregation
• 0 Schooling and Flocking
• 0 Navigation Capacities
• 0 Summary
• 0 Segue
• 3 Mating Systems and Larval Dispersal
• 0 Mating Systems
• 0 Embryo and Larval Dispersal
• 0 Alignment of Larval Dispersal with Mating Systems
• 0 Selective Harvest during Spawning Migrations
• 0 Summary
• 0 Segue
• 4 Complex Life Cycles and Marine Food Webs
• 0 Marine Food Webs
• 0 Migrating among Size Spectra
• 0 Marine Ecosystem Patchiness, Transience, and Periodicity
• 0 Life Cycle Schedules
• 0 Schooling through Food Webs
• 0 The\Storage Effect
• 0 Summary
• 0 Segue
• 5 Population Structure
• 0 Finding Their Way back Home
• 0 Life Cycle Closure
• 0 Open Life Cycles
• 0 Metapopulation Theory
• 0 Taking Stock of Population Thinking
• 0 Summary
• 0 Segue
• 6 Propagating Propensities
• 0 Conditional Migrations
• 0 Partial Migration Writ Narrow
• 0 Evolution of Partial Migration and Ecological Speciation
• 0 Partial Migration Writ Large
• 0 Summary
• 0 Segue
• 0 Recapitulation
• 7 Resilience
• 0 Resilience Theory
• 0 Resilience to Fishing and Climate Change
• 0 Collective Agencies and Biodiversity
• 0 Building Resilience into Populations
• 0 Summary
• 0 Bibliography
• 0 Index

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CHOICE Review

Understanding migration patterns of marine fish is an important component of the overall approach to fisheries management. With this book, Secor (Univ. of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) presents an up-to-date synthesis of current knowledge of marine fish migrations. The book is organized into seven chapters that address topics such as fish movements, historical knowledge regarding fish migrations, fish reproduction, and larval dispersal. The book continually ties migration patterns to adaptation and selection and the resilience of fish stocks. Issues such as the impact of fisheries, overexploitation, and climate change on changes in migration patterns and the stability of fish stocks are discussed. This approach differs from prior research because it includes all fish stocks instead of just a select few. Ultimately, this book provides a synopsis of the causes and consequences of fish diversity and fish migration patterns. Because the author tends to use terminology typical of fisheries and ecological professionals, the book is appropriate for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, fisheries professionals, and marine ecologists. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals/practitioners. --Kip R. Thompson, Missouri State University

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David Hallock Secor is a regents professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. In addition to serving as an adviser for the Chesapeake Bay Program, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council, and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna, he is an editor of the ICES Journal of Marine Science.