This course reviews and discusses recent advances in fisheries science and conservation technology related to management and sustainable utilization of fisheries resources. The course will be taught with both global and local perspectives and will include the following topics: fisheries management principles and practices; fish stock dynamics and assessment methods; fisheries ecosystem and ecosystem-based management principles; design and management of marine protected areas; essential fish habitat, theories, designation, and evaluation; behavior of fish as individuals, schools and stocks; migration, schooling and swimming mechanism and their relation to oceanographic processes; fish harvesting and conservation including recent designs and devices that reduce bycatch and discards in fisheries; fishing mortality estimates in world fisheries; unaccounted mortalities related to fishing; effect of fishing on ecosystem, benthic habitat, marine mammals, sea birds, turtles and other protected and/or charismatic species and mitigation measures; and recent advances in field technologies including underwater observation, tagging and tracking, remote sensing, and other emerging techniques and methodologies. The course will be taught as an integrated curriculum composed of self-contained topics taught by four or five faculty members in the Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory. Additional perspectives and practical experiences may be provided by a small number of invited external speakers.

Potential faculty involved:
Pingguo He, Chris Glass, Andy Rosenberg, Andy Cooper, Molly Lutcavage