Syllabus
Fisheries Population Analysis
Lecture Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, 8:30-9:20 AM
Location: 490 Hodson Hall map
Office: 124 Hodson Hall
Hours: Office Hours will be 9AM-1PM, Tuesday through Thursday (except
scheduled classroom hours), or I will be availble by appointment (call: 612-624-9229,
e-mail at spang001@umn.edu, or stop by)
The following syllabus is tentative, thus, you should check this page frequently.
Lectures for which notes are available as a Web document are shown as hypertext
links (appearing in blue throughout the web site).
2007 Fall Semester Syllabus
- Sept. 4 -- Introduction to FW5601, rationale
for multimedia approach, basic literature,
Introduction to
R (PDF), statistics quiz, conceptual frameworks and vocabulary,
class photo.
- Sept. 6 -- Introduction
to R (PDF--Ogle/Spangler textbook ; Venables,
Smith, R Development Core Team--PDF file) ; Verzani--PDF; R
Compendium
- Sept. 11 --
Review
of basic Statistics, Statistics
Review (PDF--Ogle and Spangler textbook)
- Sept. 13 -- Principles
of data capture, recording and storage, information, processed information
- Sept. 18 -- Quiz, Definitions:
Stocks, populations, parameters, statistics,
biological
statistics of populations.
- Sept. 20 -- Basic
matrix structures,
Matrices for statistics, linear model,
matrices
for populations.
- Sept. 25 -- Conceptual model of fish populations,
fate of an individual year-class
- Sept. 27 --
Estimation of mortality rates; Survivorship
curves, Catch curves, incomplete vulnerability.
- Oct. 2 -- Survivorship: age-specific
mortality, catch curve assumptions.
- Oct. 4 -- Simulating
departures from assumptions, concurrent
and consecutive forces of mortality
- Oct. 9 -- Sources of error in
catch curve analysis, conclusion of descriptive
statistics, moments, statistical distributions (pdf)
- Oct. 11 -- Introduction
to reproduction curves. Stock and recruitment functions: Beverton-Holt,
Ricker models
- Oct. 16 -- Recruitment:
estimation of parameters.
- Oct. 18 --
Pacific salmon biology and life history relative to reproduction curves.
- Oct. 23 -- Take-home
quiz; no lecture meeting today .
Use lab period to catch up on reports.
- Oct. 25 --
Class cancelled due to GRS jury duty
- Oct. 30 -- Growth
increment models for individual
body growth (pdf); biochronology:
guest lecture Laurie Richmond
- Nov. 1 -- Growth,
definitions for individuals and populations. Von
Bertalanffy curve fitting, Walford plots
- Nov. 6-- Estimation
of exploitation: Details of Dynamic Pool model, Beverton-Holt
yield model: combining mortality and individual body growth, Maximum
Sustainable Yield, optimum yield
- Nov.
8 -- Continue with Dynamic Pool model and assumptions
- Nov. 13 --
Selecting appropriate yield models for fishery management
- Nov. 15 -- Surplus
production contrasted with dynamic pool model
- Nov. 20 -- Schaefer models,
logistic population growth, relevance of surplus reproduction to yield
models.
- Nov. 22 --
University closed for Thanksgiving
holiday
- Nov. 27 -- Yield models:
data requirements, precision, prediction
- Nov. 29 -- Fishery management
related to life history--examples: sea lamprey, groundfish,
tuna
- Dec. 4 -- Estimation
of abundance: density
and removal methods--Leslie, DeLury, marking and tagging methods
- Dec.6 -- Estimation of abundance:
change-in-ratio methods; mark-recapture methods, sample size requirements.
- Dec. 11 -- Estimation
of abundance: Jolly-Seber
mark-recapture model
- Dec. 11 -- Review-- course
evaluation, final exam (During lab hours at
Rm 485, Hodson Hall)
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Original Content by Prof. George R. Spangler (Course Instructor)
Date created: Dec. 19, 1995, Last modified:March,
2008
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Spangler