Aquaculture, Fisheries and Marine Resources Sustentability

Recommended Prerequisites

Although not mandatory, the previous attendance of Population and Community Ecology, Animal Diversity and benthis Estuarine Ecology classes is suggested. The course is lectured in Portuguese or english, so that a good domain of both languages is required.

Teaching Methods

Intensive course with 2 weks duration. Lectures: theoretical, theoretical and practical;  Teamwork.

Learning Outcomes

In the scope of this curricular unit the various perspectives on the exploitation of the marine environment will be covered: i) The mais fisheries techniques and the main species exploited by fisheries; ii) the economy and the fututre of fisheries; iii) fisheries stock assessment; iV) the origine of modern aquaculture; V) new methods of intensive farming of species of commercial interest (algae, mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms and fishes. Complementarily, the techniques and methods through which the exploitation of the marine environment can be carried out in an integrated, economically viable way and within the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Objectives will be addressed.

Students should be able to identify key economically relevant species and manage their stocks. They should also be able to understand which species have potential for cultivation and which are the main techniques for improving and valuing these products. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Fisheries:

Main fisheries techniques

Life cycles of the mais exploited species (migratory, nursery, large and small pelagic species, depth species);

Fish stock assessment,

Climate change and capture fisheries: potential impacts, adaptation and mitigation

The economy of fisheries

The sustainability of fisheries

The birth of modern aquaculture and the new methods of cultivation.

From algae, to mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms and fishes.

Advance aquaculture practices;

Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture

Aquaculture in the scope of Global Changes

Aquaculture and marine sustainability.

Head Lecturer(s)

Miguel Ângelo do Carmo Pardal

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

FFAO. 2018. GLOBEFISH RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2018. The global status of seaweed production, trade and utilization. Rome. 116 pp

FAO. 2016. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2016. Contributing to food security and nutrition for all. Rome. 200 pp.

FAO. 2016. Brief on fisheries, aquaculture and climate change in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5). 16 pp.

Kevern Cochrane, Cassandra De Young, Doris Soto, Tarûb Bahri. 2009. Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture. FAO, Rome,

Simon Jennings, Michel Kaiser, John D. Reynolds. 2001. Marine Fisheries Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell, 432 pp, ISBN: 978-0-632-05098-7.

Grafton, R Q, Ray Hilborn, D Squires, M Tait, M Williams. “Handbook Pf Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management.” [BOOK] Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management, March 17, 2010, 1–785.

Campana, Steven E. “Stock Identification Methods: Applications in Fishery Science - Chapter 12,” September 27, 2004, 1–20.