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COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT


ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF FISHERIES

DATE         MAY 25-JUNE 5, 1998.

LOCATION:       CENTRO DE ECOLOGIA COSTERA. UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA. SAN
                PATRICIO-MELAQUE, JALISCO. MEXICO.


INSTRUCTORS:    DR CARL WALTERS, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
        MSc LEONARDO HUATO SOBERANIS


TUITION:        $500.00 US DLL


COURSE DESCRIPTION

>    This course is an overview of current ideas concerning the sustainable
management of fisheries with emphasis on models and methods which
incorporate error and uncertainty. The course is directed to graduate
students and professional biologists involved in the assessment and
management of fisheries.
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>COURSE OUTLINE
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>1)    Population dynamics and sustainability
>    - Structuring assessment models from the sustainability assumption
>    - Stock-Recruitment
>    - Biomass dynamics
>    - Delay differences (Deriso's model)
>    - Age structured models
>    - Multispecies models
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>2) Relating Models to Data
>    - Errors and uncertainty
>    - Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian statistics
>    - Existing information and the prior distribution
>    - Information content in data. The posterior distribution
>    - Synthetic models and the problem of conflictive information
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>3) Fisheries management
>    - Goals of fisheries management
>    - Relevant parameters in fisheries management
>    - Harvesting and its control
>    - Management optimization of harvesting
>    - Uncertainty and the management of fisheries
>    - Design and implementation of adaptive management
>    - Conflict of interests in sequential fisheries
>    - Decision Analysis
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>4) Spatial dynamics of fisheries
>    - The estimation of spatially distributed relative abundance
>    - Spatial distribution of catch and effort
>    - Evaluation of spatially-based policies
>    - Multispecies fisheries
>    - Multispecies fisheries management with spatially distributed data
>    - Models for spatial dynamics of biomass
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>FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

ENRIQUE GODINEZ DOMINGUEZ
(335) 563 30 & 563 31 (FAX)

E-mail egodinez@costera.melaque.udg.mx