Papers presented at the FSBI International Symposium, "Fish Reproduction: Strategies and Tactics", Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth, Devon, July 19-23, 1982, including bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction: Tactics and strategies in fish reproduction / R.J. Wootton -- Plasticity for age and size at sexual maturity : a life-history response to unavoidable stress / S.C. Stearns and R.E. Crandall -- Patterns in the evolution of reproductive styles in fishes / E.K. Balon -- Sunfish, salmon, and the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies and tactics in fishes / M.R. Gross -- Genetics of sex determination in fishes - a brief review / D.J. Price -- Progenetic tendencies in deep-sea fishes / N.B. Marshall -- Sex reversal and sociodemographic processes in coral reef fishes / D.Y. Shapiro -- The tokology of gobioid fishes / P.J. Miller -- Reproduction in estuarine fish / P.R. Dando -- Geographical variation in the life-history tactics of some species of freshwater fish / R.H.K. Mann, C.A. Mills and D.T. Crisp -- The role of environmental factors in the timing of reproductive cycles / V.J. Bye -- Control of the timing of ovulation by exogenous and endogenous factors / N.E. Stacey -- Parental behaviour in temperate marine teleosts with special reference to the development of nest structures / G.W. Potts -- Behavioural aspects of cichlid reproductive strategies : patterns of territoriality and brood defence in Central American substratum spawners and African mouth brooders / K.R. McKaye -- Implications of parental care of offspring for the anti-predator behaviour of adult male and female three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus L. / N. Giles -- Reproductive tactics : a non-event in aquaculture? / P.J. Reay -- A comparison of the reproductive tactics and strategies of cod, haddock, whiting and Norway pout in the North Sea / J.R.G. Hislop -- Allocation of resources to gonad and soma in Atlantic herring Clupea harengus L. / T.D. Iles -- Fitness of different reproductive strategies in teleost fishes / D.M. Ware -- Reproductive strategies and the response to exploitation / D.J. Garrod and J.W. Horwood.