FAS 6932 | Fisheries Ecology & Management

This course is an advanced graduate course on fisheries stock assessment and management. This course focuses on modern stock assessment models and why these methods work, why they sometimes fail, and how they can be improved and used in evaluating fisheries management decisions. Students construct a variety of stock-assessment models and evaluate the performance of these models using both simulated and real data from a variety of global fisheries.

Credits: 4

Prerequisite: FAS 6337C or instructor consent.

Offered in even years.