Captive Seawater Fishes Science and Technology Stephen Spotte ‎"‎The book is clearly a labor of love and one must admire the author‎'‎s boundless enthusiasm and breadth of scholarship‎.‎‎"‎ New Scientist A seamlessly clear treatise on the science and technology of maintaining seawater fishes for purposes of aquaculture and public exhibition‎.‎ Captive Seawater Fishes is the first book to bring together in one volume the disciplines of seawater chemistry‎,‎ process engineering‎,‎ and fish physiology‎,‎ behavior‎,‎ nutrition‎,‎ and health‎.‎ Richly illustrating the interplay between living fishes and the chemical and sensory stimuli of their environment‎,‎ the book details‎:‎ chemical processes controlling carbonate stability in seawater‎;‎ the effect of captivity on physiological processes‎;‎ sensory processes of fishes‎,‎ including vision‎,‎ hearing‎,‎ and electroreception‎;‎ diseases of seawater fishes and treatment methods‎;‎ and more‎.‎