Hello,
I wish to thank all those who kindly replied to my request about "simple"
or "basic" handbooks on fishery science.
Below I give a summary of the suggestions received.
Please forgive the numerous inaccuracies: in several cases the references
were pretty "rough" (i.e. with no publication date, no publisher, etc.) I
added them to the list, because they may be useful all the same.

Best regards,
Carlo Pipitone.

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Pitcher & Hart - Fisheries Ecology. Chapman & Hall.

R. Hilborn & C.J. Walters, 1992 - Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assesment:
Choice, Dynamics and Uncertainty. Chapman and Hall. ISBN 0-412-02271-0.

M. King, 1995 - Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management. Fishing News
Books. ISBN 0-85238-223-5.

D. Pauly - Some simple methods for the assessment of tropical fish stocks.
FAO Fish. Tech. Pap., 234.

Ricker - Handbook of computations for biological statistics of fish
populations.

R.K. Wallace, W. Hosking and S.T. Szedlmayer - Fisheries Management for
Fishermen (publication MASGP-94-012). Contact: Auburn University Marine
Extension and Research Center, 4170 Commanders Drive, Mobile Alabama 36615
USA.

Also a website: htpp://www.bksource.com   Browse the "commercial fishing"
section.

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