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It offers an integration of basic ichthyology concept and modern aquaculture biotechnology, and is a concise yet comprehensive book on fish and fishery for undergraduate students and others studying fish and fishery as one the subjects. All the important areas of fish and fishery are covered in this book in a lucid and easy-to-use style with headings and subheadings in bold fonts that is ideal for rapid learning, quick digest, revision and quick recall. More importantly, this book includes all the recent information on the relevant topics with up to date references. It incorporates the most recent information on sustainable aquaculture or fishery practices such as RAS, cage culture, pen culture, aquaponics, composite fish culture, etc. and stock improvement through biotechnological approaches such as polyploidization or chromosome engineering (diploid, triploid fish), androgenesis, gynogenesis, transgenesis, hybridization. The aquaculture biotechnology chapter of this book also covers the recent topics like cryopreservation for preserving sperm, eggs and embryos of threatened and endangered species and DNA barcoding using COI gene for identification of phenotypically alike species, identification and traceability of seafood and monitoring the trafficking of threatened and economically important fish by poachers.