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2013 - 2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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MSCI 501F - Fundamentals of Marine Fisheries Science


Spring (2) Fabrizio, Graves Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330; BIOL 220  and BIOL 225 .

Other Requirements: MSCI 501F is only offered at VIMS This lecture course 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.