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EOSC 478 - Introduction to Fisheries Science

Course Description

An introduction to the ecology and management of marine and freshwater fisheries. Topics include: population dynamics, ecology of fish production, community dynamics, environmental influences, fishery economics, social anthropology of fisheries, models of fishery managment that derive from ecology, economics and sociology, case studies.


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Learning Goals

under development

Instructors

Pakhomov, E.A.

Textbook

Assigned readings from the fishery literature

Course Content

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Lecture Topics

WeekTopic
1 Introduction to course, basic fishery science
2 Variation in fish numbers, distribution, abundance, migrations, how to read the fishery literature
3 Recruitment mechanisms, fish production
4 Population level models of fisheries, marine community dynamics, implications for production
5 Effects of fisheries on marine communities, restoration fishery ecology
6 Fishery management models, management case study: salmonids
7 Mid Term Exam
8 Management case study: Antarctic fisheries
9 Community based fishery management: social models, examples
10 Fishery economics: basics of resource economics, bionomic equilibrium
11 Economic instruments for fishery management
12 Economics of enforcement
13 Climate change and fisheries, future of marine fisheries

Labs

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