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  Course Description
Course Name : Economical Marine Fishes And Fisheries

Course Code : SUF409

Course Type : Optional

Level of Course : First Cycle

Year of Study : 4

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 3

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

Learning Outcomes of the Course : He/She identifies the economically important marine fishes
He/She expresses the relationship among the fishing strategy and fish behaviours
He/She identifies the Mediterranean fisheries among the world fishing
He/She expresses the relationship among the economical important marine fish species
He/She distinguishes the gain on the sector from the economical important marine fishes than the others
He/She indicates the using ways of economical important marine fishes

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 general characteristics of Turkey’s fishing yields, the distribution of fishing yields by provinces and species, among them which has economically important fishes e.g. anchovy, horse mackerel, pilchard, chup mackerel, mackerel, whiting, grey mullet, bonito, blue fish, turbot, sole, and mullet’s fishing biology, distribution areas, migration, yield potential, annual yield and their consumption types.

Course Contents : Introduction, Fishery Production of Turkey, Important Species of Turkish Fisheries, State of Fishery, Fishery Resources, Fishery Management

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Fishery Faculty Classrooms


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction, Information and Foundings on Fishery Lecture notes, pages 1-4 will have been read Lecture
2 Fishery Production and its Spatial Distribution in Turkey Lecture notes, pages 5-9 will have been read Lecture
3 Species Composition of Fishery Production Lecture notes, pages 9-13 will have been read Lecture
4 Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) Lecture notes, pages 13-20 will have been read Lecture
5 Atlantic Horse Mackarel (Trachurus trachurus), Mediterranean Horse Mackarel (Trachurus mediterraneus) and Sardine (Sardina pilchardus) Lecture notes, pages 20-30 will have been read Lecture
6 Atlantic Mackarel (Scomber scombrus) and Atlantic Chub Mackarel (Scomber colias) Lecture notes, pages 30-37 will have been read Lecture
7 Whiting (Merlangius merlangus euxinus) and Mullets (Mugil and Liza spp.) Lecture notes, pages 37-46 will have been read Lecture
8 Visa Exam Study for Visa Exam
9 Atlantic Bonito (Sarda sarda), Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) Lecture notes, pages 46-52 will have been read Lecture
10 Turbot (Scopthalmus maximus) and Sole (Solea solea) Lecture notes, pages 52-58 will have been read Lecture
11 Red Mullet (Mullus barbatus) and Surmullet (Mullus surmuletus) Lecture notes, pages 58-64 will have been read Lecture
12 Turkish Fishery Potential and Fishery Applications Lecture notes, pages 64-71 will have been read Lecture
13 State of Fishery Lecture notes, pages 71-74 will have been read Lecture
14 Fishery Resources Lecture notes, pages 78-83 will have been read Lecture
15 Fishery Management Lecture notes, pages 78-83 will have been read Lecture
16/17 Final Exam


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  AVŞAR, D., 2000. Ekonomik Deniz Balıkları ve Balıkçılığı. Ç.Ü. Su Ürünleri Fakültesi Ders Notları. Adana, 84s.
 AKŞİRAY, F., 1987. Türkiye Deniz Balıkları ve Tayin Anahtarı (The Identification sheets for the Turkey´s marine fishes). İst. Üniversitesi Rektorlüğü yayınları. No: 3490, II. Baskı, 811s.
 TURAN, C., (Edt.), 2007. Türkiye Kemikli Deniz Balıkları Atlası ve Sistematiği. Nobel Kitabevi, Nobel Matbaacılık, 549s.
 MATER, S., KAYA, M., BİLECENOĞLU, M., 2003. Türkiye Deniz Balıkları Atlası (Yardımcı Ders Kitabı). Ege Üniv. Su Ürünleri Fak. Yayınları No: 68. Yardımcı Ders Kitapları Dizini No: 11. Ege Üniv. Basımevi, Bornova-İzmir, 169s.
Required Course Material(s)


  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. 3
3 Ability to act in accordance with the regulation, social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values on fisheries field 1
4 Having knowledge on “natural and applied sciences” and “basic engineering”; combination of their theoretical and practical knowledge on fisheries engineering applications. 3
5 assessment of data scientifically on fisheries engineering, determining and solving the problems 1
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 1
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 1
10 Communicating oral and written in expertise field, monitoring the seminars and meeting in expertise field, following the foreign language publication 2
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. 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 4
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