Marine Biological Resources – Fisheries and Aquaculture
(1) General
| School: | Of the Environment | ||
| Academic Unit: | Department of Marine Sciences | ||
| Level of studies: | Postgraduate | ||
| Course Code: | Semester: | Β | |
| Course Title: | Marine Biological Resources – Fisheries and Aquaculture | ||
| Independent Teaching Activities | Weekly Teaching Hours | Credits | |
| Lectures and Lab | 3 | ||
| Total credits | 4 | ||
| Course Type: | Special background | ||
| Prerequisite Courses: | Νο | ||
| Language of Instruction and Examinations: |
Greek | ||
| Is the course offered to Erasmus students: |
Νο | ||
| Course Website (Url): | https://www.mar.aegean.gr/?lang=en&pg=3.2.1&lesson=8 | ||
(2) Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
After the successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand contemporary approaches of marine resources management
- Understand basic concepts of fisheries biology and management
- Know related national and European legislation
- Know the most appropriate methods of monitoring for each of the main groups of marine species
- Understand and apply the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management, Systematic Conservation Planning, and Maritime Spatial Planning
- Communicate and disseminate the results of scientific studies and present them in public
General Competences
- Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
- Working independently
- Sampling design and project management
- Respect for the natural environment
- Production of creative and inductive thinking
(3) Syllabus
The course includes the following topics:
Introduction to fisheries biology and management – basic principles- Fishing gears – national and European legislation
- Fisheries acoustics
- Bioacoustics
- Case studies of research and management of vulnerable biological resources
- Classic methods in stock assessment
- Non-fisheries based monitoring methods
- Monitoring and conservation of biological resources in Natura 2000 areas
- Aquaculture and aquaculture planning
- Marine Protected Areas and Maritime Spatial Planning
- Climate change
- Impacts of fisheries – Ecosystem approach in fisheries management
(4) Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation
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(5) Attached Bibliography
Suggested bibliography:
- King, M. 2007: Fisheries Biology, assessment and management, 2nd edition, August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
- Simmonds, J., MacLennan, D. 2005. Fisheries Acoustics, 2nd edn. Chapman & Hall, London.
- Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. 2016. The Science of Marine Protected Areas (3rd edition, Mediterranean). www.piscoweb.org. 22 pages.
- IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp.
- Katsanevakis S, Issaris, Kolovogiannis V, 2016. Applied Marine Ecology: Ecological Monitoring. Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean [in greek]
- Katsanevakis S, Weber A, Pipitone C, Leopold M, Cronin M, Scheidat M, Doyle TK, Buhl-Mortensen L, Buhl-Mortensen P, D'Anna G, de Boois I, Dalpadado P, Damalas D, Fiorentino F, Garofalo G, Maximiliano Giacalone VM, Hawley KL, Issaris Y, Jansen J, Knight CM, Knittweis L, Kroncke I, Mirto S, Muxika I, Reiss H, Skjoldal HR, Voge S, 2012. Monitoring marine populations and communities: review of methods and tools dealing with imperfect detectability. Aquatic Biology 16: 31-52.