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| BTM4013 | Stock Assessment Methods | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Hacer SAGLAM | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Providing data to analytically monitor the conditions of living marine and inland water resources that we use economically, to determine the effects of environmental effects such as hunting and pollution on the operated resources, to take fisheries management measures, to ensure sustainable use of the ecosystem, and to calculate the rental prices of water reservoirs to be leased. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | -learn to use the tools and working principles required for stock estimation methods. | 12,13,14,19 | 1,6, | | LO - 2 : | - comprehend the methods that can be used in seas and inland waters
| 12,13,14,19 | 1,6, | | LO - 3 : | - learn to collect essential data and use meta data for some methods, | 12,13,14,19 | 1,6, | | LO - 4 : | - apply some stock estimation methods, and take part in teamwork for some others | 12,13,14,19 | 1,6, | | LO - 5 : | - propose measures for fisheries management based on the results obtained | 12,13,14,19 | 1,6, | | LO - 6 : | - understand and interpret the results of the completed other project | 12,13,14,19 | 1,6, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Methods used to estimate the amount of living resources living in seas and inland waters for fisheries management, research plan, holistic methods; egg and larva surveys, acoustic surveys, use of rotenone and other synthetic stunners, electroshock, marking and recapture method, swept field method, methods based on commercial hunting data; collection of catch statistics, extraction of age-length-weight key, VPA and cohort analysis |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Fisheries and stock management, definitions, developments in this field in Turkey and in the world, introduction to course tools | | | Week 2 | The relationship between stock assessment and fisheries management, data needs. | | | Week 3 | Classification of stock estimation methods, direct and indirect methods. | | | Week 4 | Simple assessment methods, counting with sensors and aerial surveys, rotenon method, acoustic method and other techniques, basic principles. | | | Week 5 | Indirect assessment methods; methods based on cammercial catch data,environmental parameters and experimental catch, basic principles, data needs. | | | Week 6 | De Lurry regresyon, Backiel, Huet, Gulland, Morpho Edaphic Indeks Methods, basic principles, data needs. | | | Week 7 | Swept area method and case studies, survey design and evaluation. | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Mark and recapture method, survey requirements, types of information gained, advantages, model types, case studies. | | | Week 10 | Egg and larval surveys, collecting agg and larval samples, counting, survey design, evaluation of the data, case studies. | | | Week 11 | Virtual population analyses (VPA), description of the method, examples | | | Week 12 | Cohort analyses, description of the method, examples. | | | Week 13 | Student presentations, discussion on individual assignments. | | | Week 14 | Student presentations, discussion on individual assignments. | | | Week 15 | Student presentations, discussion on individual assignments. | | | Week 16 | Student presentations, discussion on individual assignments, final exam | | | |
| 1 | Sparre P., Venema, S.C. 1997. Introduction to tropical fish stock assessment. Part 1. Manual. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. ? 306.1, Rev. 2. Rome.
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| 1 | Erkoyuncu, İ. 1995. Balıkçılık Biyo0lojisi ve Populasyon Dinamiği. Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Yayınları No: 95. 265 s. Sinop (ISBN 975-7636-29-0) | | | 2 | Çelikkale, S., Düzgüneş, E. 1982. Balık Stoklarının Tespit Yöntemleri. Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları. No:816. Derlemeler: 42. Ankara. | | | 3 | Avşar, D. 2005. Balıkçılık Biyolojisi ve Populasyon Dinamği. Nobel Yayın Dağıtım. ISBN: 9759183994. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | | 2 | 25 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 6 | | 14 | 25 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 6 | 3 | 18 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 104 |
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