How to Adopt This Book

This is an open textbook. That means that this book is freely available and you are welcome to use, adapt, and share this book with attribution according to the Creative Commons 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Many, but not all images, illustrations, etc., in this book are licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook are encouraged to register at https://bit.ly/fishandconservation_interest. This assists the Open Education Initiative at Virginia Tech in assessing the impact of the book and allows us to more easily alert instructors of additional resources, features, and opportunities.

Finding Additional Resources for Your Course

The main landing page for the book is https://doi.org/10.21061/fishandconservation.

This page includes:

• Links to multiple electronic versions of the textbook (PDF, ePub, HTML)
• Links to the instructor resource-sharing portal (https://www.oercommons.org/groups/fish-fishing-and-conservation-instructor-group/14049)
• Link to errata document (report errors at https://bit.ly/fishandconservation_error)

Sharing Resources You’ve Created

Have you created any supplementary materials for use with this book, such as presentation slides, activities, test items, or a question bank? If so, please consider sharing your materials related to this open textbook. Please tell us about resources you wish to share by using this form: https://bit.ly/fishandconservation_interest or by directly sharing resources under an open license to the public-facing instructor-sharing portal (https://www.oercommons.org/groups/fish-fishing-and-conservation-instructor-group/14049).

Making Your Own Version of This Book

The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) on this book allows customization and redistribution, as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Best practices for attribution are provided at https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/ Best_practices_for_attribution.

This book is hosted in PDF and ePub in VTechWorks (http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112741) and HTML in Pressbooks (https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/fishandconservation). Note that the Pressbooks platform offers customization/remixing.