Conservation, ecology, and management of catfish : the second international symposium

This is the second publication in a series published by the American Fisheries Society devoted to catfish research, biology, and management, which was organized as a symposium held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2010 and builds upon the first symposium that was held in Davenport, Iowa, in 1998 (Irwin et al. 1999). The organizers of the second symposium stated that this was to “serve as an addendum to Catfish 2000” and “to cover the four corners of catfish science: catfish biology, ecology, management, and conservation” (p. xi). The book meets this standard easily. With 64 papers organized into nine sections (plenary, catfishes as sport fish, nongame catfishes, nonnative catfishes, movement and habitat use, sampling and population assessment, age and growth, behavior, and future directions), this publication covers these four corners and more.