Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Polar Fishes

Dr. Tony Farrell is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Zoology & Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research had provided an understanding of fish cardiorespiratory systems and has applied this knowledge to salmon migratory passage, fish stress handling and their recovery, sustainable aquaculture and aquatic toxicology. He has over 490 research publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and an h-factor of 92. He has co-edited of 30 volumes of the Fish Physiology series, as well as an award-winning Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology. As part of his application of physiology to aquaculture, he has studied the sub-lethal impacts of sea lice and piscine orthoreovirus on the physiology of juvenile salmon. Dr. Farrell has received multiple awards, including the Fry Medal, which is the highest honour to a scientist from the Canadian Society of Zoologists, the Beverton Medal, which is the highest honour to a scientist from the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, the Award of Excellence, which is the highest honour of the American Fisheries Society and the Murray A. Newman Awards both for Research and for Conservation from the Vancouver Marine Sciences Centre. He is a former President of the Society of Experimental Biologists and a former Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Fish Biology. He served as a member of the Minister’s Aquaculture Advisory Committee on Finfish Aquaculture for British Columbia and was a member of the Federal Independent Expert Panel on Aquaculture Science.

"The latest volume of the prestigious Fish Physiology series brings together a group of distinguished workers in the area of polar fish and provides a state-of-the-art survey of our understanding of the physiology of a group of organisms that have successfully adapted to one of the most physiologically challenging marine envrionments on the Earth. In addition to providing a masterly summary of the classical work, the authors also discuss areas of active current research making this the best current review of freezing avoidance in polar fish...it succeeds in providing a thorough, timely and authoritative survey of the physiology of polar fishes. It will find a place in my library and I have already found myself making extensive use of it...an excellent summary of current knowledge and will remain for some time the place to go to learn about the physiology of fishes living at high latitudes." --POLAR RESEARCH"...this volume covers all the major topics in fish physiology, with a special emphasis on the challenges and adaptations of fishes in extreme polar environments. This book is a valuable resource for those with interest in the biology of fishes in Arctic and Antarctic environments, as well as providing a good overview of general topics in fish physiology. The publication of this volume is also timely for anyone with an interest in the effects of global change in polar regions." --FISHERIES

• Chapter 1. The Arctic and Antarctic Polar Marine EnvironmentsContributors: Arthur L. DeVries and John F. SteffensenChapter 2. Systematic of Polar FishesContributors: Peter R. Mller, Jrgen G. Neilsen, and M. Eric AndersonChapter 3. Metabolic Biochemistry: Its Role in Thermal Tolerance and in the Capacities of Physiological and Ecological FunctionContributors: H. O. Pörtner, M. Lucassen, and D. StorchChapter 4. Antifreeze Proteins and Organismal Freezing Avoidance in Polar FishesContributors: Arthur L. DeVries and C.-H. Christina ChengChapter 5. Respiratory Systems and Metabolic RatesContributors: John F. SteffensenChapter 6. The Circulatory System and its ControlContributors: M. AxelssonChapter 7. Blood Gas Transport and Haemoglobin Function in Polar Fishes: Does Lower Temperature Explain Physiological Characters?Contributors: RMG WellsChapter 8. Antarctic Fish Skeletal Muscle and LocomotionContributors: William DavisonChapter 9. The Nervous SystemContributors: John McDonald and John Montgomery