Fish Ecology and Management RENR 2410

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the basic biology of fishes.
• Identify to species the important sport and commercial fish in BC.
• Identify to family all common fish found in BC fresh waters.
• Be familiar with common fisheries sampling techniques (gillnetting, seining, tagging).
• Understand concepts of biodiversity conservation of fishes in BC.
• Describe the life histories of important freshwater fish species in BC.
• Learn basic spawning and fish culture techniques of salmon and trout.
• Apply the methods used for fish measurement and aging.
• Understand issues associated with management of BC fisheries.
• Identify BC commercial, game and non-game freshwater fish species.
• Be familiar with major fish-harvesting techniques, particularly those in British Columbia.
• Be familiar with fish culture techniques including water supplies and treatment, containers, loadings and flow, hatchery maintenance and fish release strategies.
• Be familiar with major BC marine fish species.
• Understand basic fisheries population-estimate procedures.
• Have a basic understanding of fish disease and parasites and how to minimize their occurrence under culture conditions.
• Be familiar with steelhead stock assessment and freshwater restoration techniques.
• Be familiar with lake-limnological assessment (water quality, temperature, etc) techniques.
• Know how to use a dichotomous key for fish identification.
• Be familiar with watershed restoration techniques, including instream, off-channel and lake fertilization.
• Understand juvenile salmonid sampling techniques, identification and enumeration methods including tagging methodologies.
• Be familiar with downstream-migrating juvenile salmonid fish-collection techniques (rotary screen traps, inclined plane traps).
• Know about aspects of aquaculture in BC.
• Be able to apply his/her knowledge to the management of BC fresh and salt water fisheries resources.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2009