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Fish, a major world food resource, are still largely obtained by hunting wild animals rather than by farming. In 1975, 70 000 000 tonnes of wild fish were caught world wide, and the total production of farmed fish was 4 000 000 t. In Britain, 1 000 000 t were captured and about 2000 t farmed.
A graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, Dr Lindsay Laird’s research for PhD at Liverpool University was on the movements of salmon and trout in streams. She became interested in methods of handling and marking fish, and has worked at the Universities of Stirling and Aberdeen on salmonids in farms; she has also investigated the effects of freeze branding and anaesthetics on fish, and is currently investigating maturation problems in salmonids.
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Laird, L.M. (1978). Marking fish. In: Stonehouse, B. (eds) Animal Marking. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03711-7_10
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