Marine Fisheries Ecology

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This course covers the life history, stock concept, fishing gears, stock assessment approaches, fish-habitat relationships, socio-economics, and management of marine fishes. Several field trips to state and federal agency laboratories and fish houses/docks are used to emphasize fish sampling, biological sample processing, and gear design. This course is part of the semester at CMAST program and requires students to be on site in Morehead City, NC.