Mark Ariel D.

Malto Bicol University Tabaco Campus

MS Fisheries Technology Prof. Alex Camaya

FISHERY RESOURCE MANAGEMNET (MSFT)

1st Sem SY 2017-2018

1. What is the lecture/talk all about? Give brief detail of his lecture.

Research implies professionalism which adhere obligation to be trustworthy and

responsible. Spearheaded by the Bicol University Graduate School, a lecture on Research
Ethics was conducted on July 8, 2017 at BUCAL graced by Dr. Darryl RJ Macer,
President, American University of Sovereign Nations (AUSN) Arizona, USA. His topics
includes Ethics and in Research and Extension which differentiates the two view of
ethics, the descriptive ethics and the prescriptive ethics. The former describes the people
view of life while the latter prescribes what is ethically good or right, and was being
interconnected to the imperative of love as important part of ethics. In addition, Dr.
Macer shared on types of Research ethical violations or the things that should not be done
which include duplication, plagiarism, inventing result, data manipulation and incitation.
Likewise, Dr. Macer also presented topic on Organizing and Educating Research
Committee in which he presented a sample consent format of International Review Board
from their agency before an approval to conduct a study of their ethics committee.

2. What is most interesting topic(s) for you? How this became the most logical/essential
topic(s) for you?

The most interesting part of the lecture is the researchers that should not do or
specifically the author responsibilities. As a researcher, our work should be new and is
original, that papers result should be true, complete and are significant findings. That it
should not include any type of plagiarism and other falsification research practices. And
lastly that proper permission or citation should be observed on research papers.
Researchers should be aware of these as papers can be examined by even more
anonymous reviewers and if ever to be published this cannot be replicated by other
researches if the results are a product of fabrication. Likewise, data manipulation might
also mislead their co-researchers and might impede other researchers progress in
conducting a more reliable research. These violations are most likely the reasons why
some researchers become trust worthless enough nowadays.

3. What is the importance of the lecture for your entire MS study program and as student
attending to fishery resource management class?
 This broadens my knowledge to perform ethical responsibilities as an integral
obligation of a researcher to become accountable and trustworthy and to extend
knowledge from what is done. From the concept of fisheries, we have a wide range of
scope in which we might be dealing with samples from human, plants to animal and even
non-living things, but with research ethics, we became aware of the consequences from
the violations of ethical standards to produce a meaningful and reliable research
endeavor. A promising, worthwhile and full of confidence research paper is a success
once research ethics is given an attention. And this is what a student attending to fishery
resource management class should be realized.