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  Course Description
Course Name : Fishing gears and methots

Course Code : SUF407

Course Type : Compulsory

Level of Course : Sub-Level (Undergraduate Degree)

Year of Study : 4

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 4

Name of Lecturer(s) : Asst.Prof.Dr. ERHAN AKAMCA

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Have the knowledge and capability of fishing gears and methods for sustainable fisheries
Have the sufficiency for the classifications of fishing gears and methods
To have solve of problems by using knowledge of fishing gears and methods
Adapt other fisheries field (aquaculture, biological samples, etc.) of fishing gears and methods, and solve the problems.

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : This course aims to get knowledge and experiences in order to select an appropriate fishing gears and methods for sustainable fisheries and to introduce of national and international fishing gears, and to make classifications of the gears.

Course Contents : In contents of the lesson below subjects are covered, under the main titles of fishing gears and methods in fishery, fishing lines, gillnets, trammel nets, trawls, purse-seines, beach seines, tuna trap nets, lift nets, traps, fishing tools that using by hands, other accessories; world and Turkish fisheries sectors, classifications of fishing gears, fishing line tools, types of fishing line, long lines, material of nets, types of gillnet, parts of trawl, trawl mechanization, types of trawl, technical characteristics of purse-seine net, purse-seine mechanization, fishing, pots and traps, fyke nets, etc.

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Classroom


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 İntroduction Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
2 Fisheries and Factors affecting fisheries Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
3 Classifications of fishing gears and fising methods Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
4 Fishing without gear, homework Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
5 Fishing with basic gear Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
6 Blast fishing, fishing with poison, fishing with electiric Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
7 Trap fishing. Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
8 Midterm exam Study for midterm exam Wriiting exam
9 Hook and line and longline fishing Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
10 Gillnetting, homework Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
11 Beach seine Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
12 Trawling Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
13 Purse seine fishing Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
14 Stake net fishing Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
15 Special fishing method Reading the related information on the course subject Lecture
16/17 Final exam Study for final exam Wriiting exam


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  Taşdemir, O. 1997. Av Araçları ve Yapım Tekniği. Bakii Kitapevi.Adana
 Mehmet Salih Çelikkale, Ertuğ Düzgüneş, A. Ferit Candeğer, 1993. Av Araçları ve Avlama Teknolojisi. , XVI+541+1 S., Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi: 162, Sürmene Deniz Bilimleri Fakültesi:4
 Hoşsucu, H., Fisheries I, (in Turkish), Ders Kitabı No.24, 247 p. (1998) Hoşsucu, H., Fisheries III, (in Turkish), Ders Kitabı No.27, 237 p. (2000)
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 80
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 2 20
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 3
2 Gaining competence to determine the current status of aquatic resources and its sustainable use, water pollution and control, and biotechnology areas. 3
3 Ability to act in accordance with the regulation, social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values on fisheries field 4
4 Having knowledge on “natural and applied sciences” and “basic engineering”; combination of their theoretical and practical knowledge on fisheries engineering applications. 5
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. 4
7 Collecting data in fisheries science, making the basic experimental studies, evaluating the results, identifying the problems and developing methods of solution 3
8 Having plan any study related to fisheries science as an individually, managing and consulting 0
9 Learning the knowledge by the determining learning needs; developing positive attitude towards lifelong learning 3
10 Communicating oral and written in expertise field, monitoring the seminars and meeting in expertise field, following the foreign language publication 3
11 Improving life-long learning attitude and using the information to the public interest. 2
12 Having skills to apply modern techniques and computational tools necessary for engineering applications. 4
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 3
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) 14 3 42
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 2 4 8
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 2 2
    Final Exam 1 2 2
Total Workload: 96
Total Workload / 25 (h): 3.84
ECTS Credit: 4