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FISH 607: FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

Credits: 
2

This course will examine the constraints that hinder fisheries management in tropical waters and the various management approaches employed by fisheries scientists. The selected topics to be treated include: Fishery management systems: management approaches (comprehensive rational planning, precautionary and adaptive management); management scopes (single species management compared with multi-species and multi-gear management); Use rights; control rights and fisheries co-management. Fisheries Law of Ghana; FAO Code of conduct for responsible fisheries management; Maximum Sustainable Yield and Maximum Economic Yield as technical reference points in fisheries management; Fisheries regulations: Input controls (e.g. limitation on number of fishing units, efficiency and types of fishing gear, closures, mesh size and escape gaps (and output controls (size limits, rejection of spawning /gravid females, catch quotas).