FISH 425 — Fish Stock Assessment
Marine and Fisheries Sciences · University of Ghana
Fish stock assessment as a management tool. Status of world fisheries. Trends of national fish production and consumption. Types of overfishing. Key fish species targeted for stock assessment in Ghanaian coastal waters; constraints that hinder fish stock assessment in tropical waters. Collection of fishery data for stock assessment: catch, effort and abundance data, size composition data and other biological data. Simple methods for the estimation of growth and mortality parameters using size composition data. Measurement of status of fishery: CPUE, stock size, fishery mortality rate and other indicators. Estimation of Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) and optimal fishing effort using Schaefer‘s Surplus Production Model as technical reference point for providing management advice. Introduction to stock assessment tools.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- FISH 414 — Fish Processing and Utilization
- FISH 417 — Fisheries Data Management
- FISH 418 — Current Research in Fisheries Acquaintance with current research in
- FISH 421 — Fisheries and Higher Vertebrate Interactions
- FISH 424 — Fish Trade and Marketing
- FISH 426 — Fisheries Governance and Institutional Framework
- FISH 429 — Fisheries Economics
- MASC 402 — Marine Pollution
- MASC 411 — Marine Plankton Ecology
- MASC 412 — Marine Ecology
- MASC 413 — Marine Benthic Ecology
- MASC 414 — Population Genetics of Marine Organisms
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).