3523 - Fisheries Biology
Course information
- Title
- Fisheries Biology
- Course number
- 3523.22
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 7.50
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- Science and Tecnology
- Educations
- BSc in Biology
- Prerequisites
- For joining this single course, Upper Secondary School with B-level in mathematics is required.
- Language of instruction
- The course is taught in Faroese. The textbooks are in Faroese and English and other instructional materials are in Faroese, English and possibly Scandinavian languages.
- Registration
- Students on the fifth semester of B.Sc. in Biology are automatically enrolled. Applicants for an individual course must apply via the Student Service Center at lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- End date
- Friday, October 11, 2024
Academic content
- Purpose
- To give an overview of the main Faroese profession - fisheries. The course will involve ecology and population estimation of the common fish species around the Faroe Islands.
- Learning outcomes
- On completion of the course, the successful student should be able to: • Provide a general description of fish appearance using the appropriated terms. • Describe the fish organs: location, structure, and function. • Self to work and know about the work and the workflow, that regularly are done on board a research vessel. • Describe the fishery impact on fish the environment. • Utilize and describe the general terms used in fishery biology. • Made a stock assessment. • Reflect on the economic importance fishery have on the society. Evaluate if the fishery is sustainable.
- Content
- The courses consist of two main subjects: Fish ecology and assessment. Fish ecology: morphology, evolution and physiology, taxonomy, feeding, spatial distribution, growth, reproduction, life-history strategies, and fish communities. Assessment: General fish population estimation, including data collection, production models, parameter estimation and yield per recruit. The students will carry out a stock assessment on a given species. The results will be presented in a report, which is part of the evaluation.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Lectures, lab work, one week cruise with a research vessel, and carry out a stock assessment on a given species.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- • Evaluate if the fishery is sustainable. • 3 hours written examination without helping material, which will be weighted as 75 % of the examination. Assignment an oral presentation of stock assessment report, which will be weighted as 25 % of the examination.
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The exam is set for week 43, 2024
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Eyðfinn Magnussen
- Teachers
- Eyðfinn Magnussen, Dánjal Petur Højgaard, Johnny í Grótinum