Molecular Diagnosis of Salmonid Diseases
Reviews: Methods and Technology in Fish Biology and Fisheries published by Kluwer Academic Publishers is a book series dedicated to the publication of information on advanced, forward-looking methodologies, technologies, or perspectives in fish and fisher
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Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries VOLUME 3
Series editor:
Jennifer L. Nielsen
u.
S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division Anchorage, Alaska
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Molecular Diagnosis of Salmonid Diseases
Edited by
Carey O. Cunningham FRS Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, BV.
A C.1. P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-90-481-5974-1 ISBN 978-94-017-2315-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2315-2
Printed on acid-free paper
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General Series Preface Reviews: Methods and Technology in Fish Biology and Fisheries published by Kluwer Academic Publishers is a book series dedicated to the publication of information on advanced, forward-looking methodologies, technologies, or perspectives in fish and fisheries. This series is especially dedicated to relevant topics addressing global, international concern in fish and fisheries. Humans continue to challenge our environments with new technologies and technological applications. The dynamic creativity of our own species often tends to place the greatest burden on our supporting ecosystems. This is especially true for aquatic networks of creeks, lakes, rivers and ocean environments. We also frequently use our conceptual powers to balance conflicting requirements and demands on nature and continue to develop new approaches and tools to provide sustainable resources as well as conserve what we hold most dear on local and global scales. This book series will provide a window into the developing dynamic among humans, aquatic ecosystems (both freshwater and marine), and the organisms that inhabit aquatic environments.
There are many reasons to doubt the increasing social and economic value technology has gained over the last two centuries. Science and technology represent stages in human development. I agree with Ernst Mayer when he said in Toward a New Philosophy of Biology (1988) that "endeavors to solve all scientific problems by pure logic and refined measurements are unproductive, if not totally irrelevant." Living aquatic systems are extremely complex environments that appear alien to most human beings. We only "go there" in a limited capacity and for relatively short periods of time. To reduce these biological systems to simple physio-chemical processes that can be controlled by technology, and made subject to arbitrary management decisions or broad arm-waving policies is to deny their unique nature. That is certainly not what is meant by "Metho
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