Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-418) and index.

Genetics and fishery management, past, present, and future; interpreting genetic variation detected by electrophoresis; inbreeding; genetic variation within a subdivided population; genetic population structure of Atlantic salmon; genetic management of hatchery stocks; natural hybridization and introgression in fishes, methods of detection and genetic interpretations; genetic distance and molecular phlogeny; genetic divergence between Congeneric Atlantic and Pacific Ocean fishes; use of genetic marks in stock composition analysis; the utility of mitochondrial DNA in fish genetics and fishery management; mitochondrial DNA of salmonids, inter- and intraspecific variability detected sith restriction; chromosome manipulation and makers in fishery; stocl transfer relative to natural organization, management, and conservation of fish populations; genetical conservation of epxloited fishes.