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MB5310:03

Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management

[Not offered in 2004]

Townsville

HECS Band 2

20 hours lectures, 12 hours practicals, 16 hours seminars, 4-day field trip. February block mode.

Available to GDipResMeth, GCertResMeth, GDipSc, MAppSc, MSc students.

Staff:

Assoc. Professor G Russ.

A two week intensive subject on recent advances in fisheries biology, assessment and management. Emphasis will be on tropical marine fisheries. Major themes will be age determination of tropical fish, age-based stock assessment, coral reef fisheries, the use of marine reserves as fisheries management tools and the utility of multi-species fisheries models.

Assessment by take-home examination (60%); seminar (20%); assignment (15%); discussion (5%).