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MSCI 501F - Fundamentals of Marine Fisheries Science


Spring (2) Fabrizio, Graves

This lecture course is intended for SMS students outside of the Department of Fisheries Science and will introduce the principles and techniques of fishery science. Lecture topics will include the theory and impacts of fishing, description and status of international, North American and regional fisheries, fisheries oceanography, recruitment processes, single-species and ecosystem-based approaches to stock assessment, and fisheries management, and the goals and problems of sustaining an open-access common pool resource.