Instructors:
Web Site :
Oceanography 331
Living Resources of the Sea, MSB#100
9:00 – 10:15 PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Dr. Paul Bienfang
Phone: 956-7402
Office: MSB 606
Email: bienfang@soest.hawaii.edu
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/courses_html/OCN331
Course Syllabus [4September2014 Updated Version]
Date
August
September
October
Subject
26
Introduction
Formation of the Earth and its
Oceans
28
Background Oceanography and
Meteorology
04
Why do we care about seafood
& limits to natural marine
Production; Harvesting
Techniques
Harvesting Techniques Video
09
Overview of world fisheries
11
Fisheries management theory
16
Clupeid and gadoid fisheries
18
Peruvian Anchovy
23
Tuna fisheries
25
30
Tuna Fisheries & dolphins
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
02
Oceans and Human Health: I:
Ecosystem Services
02
07
09
14
16
Tragedy of the Commons, and
Tragedy Averted
Hawaiian Fishing Issues I:
Precious Corals, HFA
Hawaiian Fisheries Issues II,
Deep 7 Mgmt & Marine Debris
Oceans and Human
Health II: Food
Readings
Background Oceanography and
Meteorology
Chapter 1: Limitations of the Marine
Fish Catch; Chapter 2: Fishing
Methods
History Channel Video
Chapter 3: Overview of World
Fisheries + Underused Resources
Chapter 4: Fisheries Management
Chapter 5: Clupeid and Gadoid
Fisheries
Chapter 9: Peruvian Anchovy
Chapter 7: Tuna
Chapter 8: Tuna & dolphins
Bluefin 1 & Bluefin 2
Van Beukering: Total Economic
Value of Bermuda’s Coral Reefs –
Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons
Butler, The Bermuda Fisheries
Chapter 6: Hawaiian Fisheries
Chapter 11: Precious Corals
Leave Big Ones, Omilu, Laynets
Evolutionary Perspective, Salmon
Food Issues
November
21
23
28
Review for Mid-Term Exam
NO CLASS
Mid-Term Exam
Personal Review for Mid-Term Exam
30
Hawaiian Fisheries Issues III
Fishing the Ancient Waters
Status US Fisheries-PKB Video
4
Holiday –Election Day
6
Whales and Whaling I
11
Holiday – Veteran’s Day
Oceans and Human Health III
& I: Marine Models
Pharmaceuticals and other
non-food products
Aquaculture – Principles,
Potential and Overview
Aquaculture - International
Aquaculture - U.S. & Hawaii
No Class – Thanksgiving
13
18
20
25
27
December
02
04
09
11
18
Aquaculture - Issues
Law of the Sea
Policy: Living Marine
Resources, Intellectual
Property
Review for final exam
Final examination
Chapter 10: Whales and Whaling;
Palumbi Articles
Olivera Articles; Willis, Nature’s
Pharma S Dietary Guidelines-Facts
Seafood Nutrition-Facts
Chapter 12: Aquaculture
Chapter 13: Law of the Sea
Your grade in the course is based on quizzes (30%), a mid-term exam (30%), and a final exam
(40%). The final exam will be cumulative. Your grade on the quizzes will be based on your
N-1 best quiz scores. Quizzes will be unannounced.
Student Learning Outcomes:
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Students should understand the functioning of marine food web processes that produce
commercially important fisheries in various oceanic realms, and reasons for limitations
to fisheries catches.
Students should understand the evolution of fishery technology and its impacts to
various commercially important fisheries throughout the world.
Students should understand the basic principals of fisheries management, and the
practical and theoretical problems in their application.
Students should understand the changing importance of aquaculture globally in the
supplying seafood to the increasing demand.
Students will be conversant with the history of fisheries and aquaculture in Hawaii, the
United States, and globally.
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Students will be familiar with case studies of marine biodiscovery, and examples of
influences of the oceans and fisheries products on the health of humans.