Fisheries Assessment
Undergraduate | TAS-JFA308 | 2024
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- 14 July 2024
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- No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 22 July 2024
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Fisheries Assessment
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Develop a conceptual understanding of whole-stock and cohort-based modelling techniques used in fisheries stock assessments with an awareness of their data requirements, limitations and assumptions.
- Construct quantitative models for the assessment of fished stocks using Excel.
- Recommend management strategies that enable the sustainable harvest of fished stocks based on life history biology and model outputs from applied stock assessments.
- Revision of Age/Growth and Reproduction
- Introduction to Stock Assessment
- Age-based Methods of Assessing Fishing Mortality
- Length-based Methods of Assessing Fishing Mortality
- Virtual Field Trip/Video of Limpet Survey at West Head
- Single Cohort and Yield per Recruit (YPR) Models
- Virtual Population Analysis with the Thompson & Bell Model
- Stock Recruitment Relationships
- Integrated Analysis
- Whole Stock Models
- Risk Assessment
- Case study: Sand Flathead
Fisheries assessment is a critical component of monitoring and managing fishery harvests. This advanced subject provides students with a detailed understanding of the quantitative techniques employed in the assessment of fished stocks. The subject covers fishery dependent and fishery independent data and its use in fisheries modelling, mortality estimation, biomass and yield modelling, stock-recruitment relationships and predictive fisheries risk assessments.
- Computer Test (25%)
- Scientific Report (20%)
- Final Exam (40%)
- Computer Tutorials (15%)
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