Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A concept of fish phenology / P.J. Miller -- Energetics of freshwater teleosts / J.M. Elliott -- Principles of growth in fishes / E. Ursin -- Endocrine aspects of metabolic coordination in teleosts / B.I. Baker and T. Wigham -- Environmental timing and the control of reproduction in teleost fish / D.B.C. Scott -- Energy costs of egg production and environmental determinants of fecundity in teleost fishes / R.J. Wootton -- Demographic aspects of fish fecundity / R.H.K. Mann and C.A. Mills -- Senescence in fishes / A.D. Woodhead -- Genetics of growth and reproduction in teleosts / C.E. Purdom -- Ecological aspects of seasonality in fishes of tropical waters / R.H. Lowe-McConnell -- The phenology of annual killifishes / B.R.C. Simpson -- Adaptiveness and implications of small size in teleosts / P.J. Miller -- The theory of life-history evolution and its application to Atlantic salmon / W.M. Schaffer -- Life-style and phenology in deep-sea anacanthine teleosts / J.D.M. Gordon -- Fish stocks : their life-history characteristics and response to exploitation / D.J. Garrod and B.J. Knights -- Physiological and ecological factors in the development of fish culture / A.I. Payne.