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Laboratory leaflets

A long-standing series aimed at the fishing industry, fisheries managers, junior technicians and interested laypersons rather than a scientific readership. This series covers both fisheries and environmental aspects, and is listed in reverse date order (latest publication first) below:

• 75. An appraisal of the UK bass fishery and its management (1995) (PDF, 0.3 MB)
• 74. Results of bass tagging in Poole Bay during 1992 (1994) (PDF, 0.2 MB)
• 73. Guidelines for assessing marine aggregate extraction (1993) (PDF, 0.1 MB)
• 72. Key issues in the conservation of fisheries (1993) (PDF, 0.1 MB)
• 71. Why fisheries need to be managed and why technical conservation measures on their own are not enough (1993) (PDF, 0.2 MB)
• 70. Aide memoire on scientific advice on fisheries management (1992) (PDF, 0.2 MB)
• 69. Gill netting (1991) (PDF, 0.7 MB)
• 66. Storage and care of live lobsters (1991) (PDF, 1.14 MB)
• 64. Stability and the objectives of fishery management: the scientific background (1990) (PDF, 0.2 MB)
• 61. The North Sea cod and the English fishery (1988) (PDF, 1.78 MB)
• 60. The scientific essentials of fisheries management and regulations (1987) (PDF, 788 KB)
• 59. The bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and management of its fishery in England and Wales (1987) (PDF, 2.7 MB)
• 58. Why increase mesh sizes? (1986) (PDF, 1.61 MB)
• 57. The use of anchored gill and tangle nets in the sea fisheries of England and Wales (1985) (PDF, 2.27 MB)
• 56. Scad in the north-east Atlantic (1983) (PDF, 1.48 MB)
• 55. Rockall and its fishery (1982) (PDF, 2.98 MB)
• 54. A background to scientific advice on fisheries management (1982) (PDF, 1.98 MB)
• 53. Prospects for fuller utilization of UK fish meal capacity (1981)(PDF, 1.46 MB)
• 52. A review of development of the Solent oyster fishery 1972-80 (1981) (PDF, 2.53 MB)
• 51. The scallop and its fishery in England and Wales (1980) (PDF, 3.09 MB)
• 49. Coho salmon in north-west Europe: possible effects on native salmonids (1979) (PDF, 2.46 MB)
• 48. Squid, a review of their biology and fisheries (1979) (PDF, 3.13 MB)
• 46. Heat processing of cockles (1979) (PDF, 1.11 MB)
• 45. Blue whiting (1979) (PDF, 1.8 MB)
• 44. Mackerel - a problem in fish stock assessment (1978)(PDF, 532 KB)
• 43. Shellfish purification in installations using ultraviolet light (1978) (PDF, 516 KB)
• 42. Prawn culture research (1978) (PDF, 750 KB)
• 41. New deep-water trawling grounds to the west of Britain (1978) (PDF, 1.53 MB)
• 40. The potential for the culture of crustacea in salt water in the United Kingdom (1977) (PDF, 404 KB)
• 39. Artificial seawater for shellfish tanks (1977) (PDF, 951 KB)
• 38. Horse mackerel (1977) (PDF, 627 KB)
• 37. The live storage of lobsters (1977) (PDF, 283 KB)
• 36. The management of Irish Sea fisheries - a review (1977) (PDF, 1.78 MB)
• 35. Fish cultivation research (1977) (PDF, 469 KB)
• 34. Deposit of molluscan shellfish (1977) (PDF, 728 KB)
• 33. The crab fishery south west England (1976) (PDF, 2.83 MB)
• 32. Mackerel research in the south-west (1976) (PDF, 5.26 MB)
• 31. Oyster fisheries of England and Wales (1976) (PDF, 1.62 MB)
• 30. Norfolk crab investigations 1969-73 (1975) (PDF, 2.45 MB)
• 29. Impact of mechanical harvesting on the Thames Estuary cockle fishery (1972) (PDF, 3.93 MB)
• 28. The fishery for the pink shrimp, (Pandalus montagui), in the Wash (1973) (PDF, 4.83 MB)
• 27. Prawn culture in the United Kingdom (1972) (PDF, 6.18 MB)
• 26. The cockle (1972) (PDF, 1.10 MB)
• 24. Marine fish farming (1972) (PDF, 350 KB)
• 23. Mackerel of the south-west (1971) (PDF, 504 KB)
• 22. Cornish crawfish investigations (1971) (PDF, 563 KB)
• 21. Fishing for sandeels (1970) (PDF, 404 KB)
• 20. The production of clean shellfish (1969) (PDF, 764 KB)
• 19. Oyster pests and their control (1969) (PDF, 997 KB)
• 18. The Torrey Canyon disaster and fisheries (1968) (PDF, 1.20 MB)
• 17. Yorkshire crab stocks (1967) PDF, 709 KB)
• 15. Whelks (1967) (PDF, 1.35 MB)
• 14. Tuna fishing (1966) (PDF, 1.09 MB)
• 13. Lobster storage and shellfish purification (1966) (PDF, 587 KB)
• 12. The Norfolk crab fishery (1966) (PDF, 844 KB)
• 11. North Sea plaice stocks (1966) (PDF, 700 KB)
• 10. Protecting British shellfisheries (1966) (PDF, 437 KB)
• 9. The Cornish pilchard and its fishery (1965) (PDF, 627 KB)
• 8. Future prospects in the distant water fisheries (1965) (PDF, 1.15 MB)
• 7. The West Greenland cod fishery (1965) (PDF, 558 KB)
• 6. Studies with the Woodhead seabed drifter in the southern North Sea (1965) (PDF, 366 KB)
• 5. Notes escallops and details of the Baird dredge and its handling (1965) (PDF, 413 KB)
• 4. Trawling prospects off west Norway (1963) (PDF, 2.68 MB)
• 3. Yorkshire crab investigations (1963) (PDF, 685 KB)
• 2. Spotlight on the American whelk tingle (1962) (PDF, 271 KB)
• 1. Newfoundland fishing (1962) (PDF, 641 KB)