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  Course Description
Course Name : Fisheries Management

Course Code : SUF410

Course Type : Compulsory

Level of Course : First Cycle

Year of Study : 4

Course Semester : Spring (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 3

Name of Lecturer(s) : Prof.Dr. DURSUN AVŞAR

Learning Outcomes of the Course : He/She indicates the present status of fishing activity on the fish stocks
He/She identifies the models applying on the management of fish stocks holistic or analitic
He/She lists the data requirements of models using fish stock management
He/She expresses the participators of fisheries management
He/She identifes the requirements way for the fisheries management
He/She distinguishes the appropriate techniques for fisheries management

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : The aim of this course is to be informed about the fish stocks and aquatic ecosystem, the target of the fisheries management, general improving trend in fisheries and its evaluating, fisheries and models, data sources, fisheries fleet, over fishing, theory of growth, fluctuations on stock, optimal fishery, management in fish stocks, theoretical basis in fisheries management, fisheries management models, techniques and strategies.

Course Contents : Purpose of Fisheries Management, Evaluation of Fisheries Management, Fisheries and Models, Fisheries Data, Fisheries Fillet, Overfishing, Flactuations of Stocks and Optimum Fishing, Management of Fish Stocks, Fishing Regulations

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Fisheries Faculty Classrooms


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Purpse and Targets of Fisheries Management Fisheries Management Notes, pages 1-10 will have been read Lecture
2 Evaluation of Fisheries Fisheries Management Notes, pages 10-19 will have been read Lecture
3 Fisheries and Models Fisheries Management Notes, pages 19-26 will have been read Lecture
4 Commercil Fisheries data Fisheries Management Notes, pages 27-44 will have been read Lecture
5 Data from Research Fisheries Fisheries Management Notes, pages 45-52 will have been read Lecture
6 Fisheries Fillet Fisheries Management Notes, pages 53-65 will have been read Lecture
7 Overfishing Fisheries Management Notes, pages 66-74 will have been read Lecture
8 Visa Exam Study for Visa Exam
9 Flactuations in Stocks and Optimum Fishing Fisheries Management Notes, pages 75-84 will have been read Lecture
10 Fisheries Management and Models Fisheries Management Notes, pages 85-92 will have been read Lecture
11 Yield per Recruitement Model of Beverton and Holt Fisheries Management Notes, pages 93-100 will have been read Lecture
12 Fish Stock Management Fisheries Management Notes, pages 104-112 will have been read Lecture
13 Application of Theory in Fisheries Management Fisheries Management Notes, pages 113-130 will have been read Lecture
14 Fisheries Regulation Strategies Fisheries Management Notes, pages 131-136 will have been read Lecture
15 Fisheries Management Techniques Fisheries Management Notes, pages 136-148 will have been read Lecture
16/17 Final Exam


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  RUSSELL, E.S., 1931. Some theoretical considerations on the “overfishing” problem. J. Cons. Internat. Explor. Mer. 6 (1): 3-27.
 LAEVASTU, T., FAVORITE, F., 1988. Fishing and stock fluctuations. Fishing News Boks. UK. 239p.
 AVŞAR, D., 2005: Balıkçılık Biyolojisi ve Populasyon Dinamiği, Adana Nobel Kitabevi, Adana, 332s.
 BİNGEL, F., 1985. Balık Populasyonlarının İncelenmesi, İ.Ü. Rektörlüğü Su Ürünleri Yüksek Okulu Sapanca Balık Üretme ve Islah Merkezi. Yay. No: 10; 133s.
 BEVERTON, R.J.H., HOLT, S.J.,1957. On the dynamics of exploited fish populations. Fish. Invest. Minist. Agric. Fish. Food G.B. (2 Sea fish.) 19: 533p.
 BİNGEL, F., 2002: Balık populasyonlarının incelenmesi. Baki Kitap Evi, Yayın No. 26, Adana 404s.
 BİNGEL, F., 1985. Balık Populasyonlarının İncelenmesi, İ.Ü. Rektörlüğü Su Ürünleri Yüksek Okulu Sapanca Balık Üretme ve Islah Merkezi. Yay. No: 10; 133s.
 BİNGEL, F., 2002. Balık Populasyonlarının İncelenmesi. Baki Kitapevi. Yayın No: 26. Birinci Basım. ISBN: 975-7024-18-X. Adana. 404s.
 GULLAND, J.A., 1980. Some Problems of the Management of Shared Stocks. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper no: 206. Rome, Italy.
 HILBORN, R., WALTERS, C. J., 1992. Quantitative fisheries stock assessment. Chapman and Hall. New York USA.
 PAULY, D., 1984. Fish population dynamics in tropical waters: A manual for use with programmable calculators. ICLARM Studies and Reviews 8, International Center for living Aquatic Resources Management, Manila, Philippines. 325p.
 GULLAND, J.A., 1983. Fish stock assessment: a manuel of basic methods. Chichester, U.K., Wiley Interscience, FAO/Wiley series on food and agriculture, Vol. 1: 223p.
 RICKER, W.E., 1975. Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. Bull. Fish. Res. Board. Can. 191, 382p.
 SPARRE, P., VENEMA, S.C., 1992. Introduction to tropical fish stock assessment. Part 1. Manual. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. No. 306. 1. Rev. 1. Rome, 376p.
 TROADEC, J.P., 1983. Introduction to Fisheries Management. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper no: 224, Rome Italy.
Required Course Material(s)  FAO., 1997. FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries. No:4, Rome, FAO. 82p.
 GULLAND, J.A., 1969. Manual of methods for fish stokc assessment. Part 1. Fish population analysis. FAO Man. Fish. Sci., (4): 135p.
 BARANOV, F.I., 1926. On the question of the dynamics of the fishing industry. Nauchn. Byull. Rybn. Khoz., 8 (1925): 7-11 (in Russian).
 FOX, W.W.Jr., 1970. An exponential surplus-yield model for optimizing exploited fish populations. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc., 99: 80-88.
 HOLDEN, M.J., RAITT, D.F.S., 1974. (Eds.). Manual of fisheries science. Part 2-Methods of resource investigation and their application. FAO Fish. Tech. Rap., (115) Rev. 1: 214p.
 HOLDEN, M.J., RAITT, D.F.S., 1974. (Eds.). Manual of fisheries science. Part 2-Methods of resource investigation and their application. FAO Fish. Tech. Rap., (115) Rev. 1: 214p.
 FAO., 1995. FAO Yearbook. Fishery Statistics. Cathes and landings. FAO Fisheries Series, No: 44, Vol: 76, 687p.
 SCHAEFER, M. B., 1954. Some aspects of the dynamics of populations important to the management of the commercial marine fisheries. Bull. Inter-Am. Trop. Tuna Comm. 1 (2): 27-56.


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 2 100
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 0 0
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Using the informatics and communicating technology 0
2 Gaining competence to determine the current status of aquatic resources and its sustainable use, water pollution and control, and biotechnology areas. 4
3 Ability to act in accordance with the regulation, social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values on fisheries field 3
4 Having knowledge on “natural and applied sciences” and “basic engineering”; combination of their theoretical and practical knowledge on fisheries engineering applications. 4
5 assessment of data scientifically on fisheries engineering, determining and solving the problems 5
6 Uses theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of fisheries to design; investigates and interprets events and phenomena usig scientific methods and techniques. 1
7 Collecting data in fisheries science, making the basic experimental studies, evaluating the results, identifying the problems and developing methods of solution 2
8 Having plan any study related to fisheries science as an individually, managing and consulting 1
9 Learning the knowledge by the determining learning needs; developing positive attitude towards lifelong learning 1
10 Communicating oral and written in expertise field, monitoring the seminars and meeting in expertise field, following the foreign language publication 0
11 Improving life-long learning attitude and using the information to the public interest. 3
12 Having skills to apply modern techniques and computational tools necessary for engineering applications. 5
13 Having ability to promote the study about aquaculture techniques by saving the natural environment, fishery diseases, fishing and processing technology, structure of fishery sector, problems and solution of their expertise field 0
14 Having ability to promote the study about aquaculture techniques by saving the natural environment, fishery diseases, fishing and processing technology, structure of fishery sector, problems and solution of their expertise field 3
15 Improves constantly itself , as well as professional development scientific, social, cultural and artistic fields according to his/her interests and abilities identifying needs of learning. 0
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 3 42
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 8 2 16
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 0 0 0
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 2 8 16
    Final Exam 1 12 12
Total Workload: 86
Total Workload / 25 (h): 3.44
ECTS Credit: 3