Marine Living Resources

Objectives

1. Understand and identify the main living marine resources and the fishing gears used to their capture.

2. Understand the sensitivity of the living resources in relation to human interventions such as fishing, pollution and habitat destruction and know the effects of exploitation on different components of the marine ecosystem.

3. Study the influence of environmental conditions in the availability and fluctuations in the abundance of marine resources.

4. Study various types of emblematic fisheries worldwide (small pelagic, tuna, demersal species, cephalopods).

Program

1. Concepts in fisheries biology. Population unit and stock. Fisheries statistics ? catches and fishing effort. Sampling catches and study of samples. Main biological parameters in fisheries biology (reproduction, growth, recruitment).

2. Main exploited living resources: fish, crustaceans, molluscs and algae. The arts and techniques of fishing and main types of fishing vessels.

3. The exploitation of living resources: historical evolution and current situation of world fisheries. Fishing in the European Union and Portugal. The fishing industry, economic, political and social considerations.

4. Study of some international and national fisheries (small pelagics, tuna, cephalopods, demersal species).

5. Ecological problems of fisheries. Multispecies aspect of fisheries. By-catches. Interactions between fisheries.

Teaching Methodologies

The contents of this course will be provided to students on the basis of conceptual nature classroom and exploratory activities.

The classes will be essentially expository, using dynamic visual presentations, specific case studies using the analysis of scientific publications, which will be presented and discussed by the students.

The information transmitted in the classroom and related documentation will be made available through digital page of discipline on the platform of "e-learning Moodle".

Bibliography

Caddy, J.F.; Griffiths, R.C., 1995. Living marine resources and their sustainable development: some environmental and institutional perspectives. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 353. FAO, Rome, 167p.

FAO, 2014. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2014, FAO, Rome, ISBN 978-92-5-108276-8 (PDF)

King, M., 2007. Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management, 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.

Paul J. B. Hart (Editor), John D. Reynolds (Editor), 2002. Handbook of Fish Biology and Fisheries: 2 Volume Set. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-0-632-06483-0.

Jennings, S., Kaiser, M., Reynolds, J.D., 2001. Marine Fisheries Ecology. 432 pp.. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-0-632-0509.

Edwin S. Iversen, 1995. Living Marine Resources: Their Utilization and Management. Springer Science & Business Media, 31/12/1995 - 403 pp.

Barnes, R.S.K. & R. N. Hughes, 1999. An Introduction to Marine Ecology, 3rd Edition. 296 pp. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-0-86542-834-8.