FISC 1 - Principles of Fishery Science

Fishery Science
 It is the academic discipline of managing
and understanding fisheries.
 It is a multidisciplinary science which
draws on the discipline of oceanography,
aquatic biology, conservation, ecology,
population dynamics, economics and
management, attempt to provide an
integrated picture of fisheries.

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Fishery
 It is a unit engaged in raising and/or
harvesting fish, which is determined by
an authority or other entity to be a
fishery.
 Generally, a fishery exists for the purpose
of providing human food, although other
aims are possible (such as sport or
recreational fishing), or obtaining
ornamental fish or fish products such as
fish oil.
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 A fishery is defined generically as a
system composed of three interacting
components:
 the aquatic biota
 the aquatic habitat
 the human users of these renewable
natural resources
Each of these components influence how the
fishery performs. Understanding the entire system
and its parts is often essential to successful
management of a fishery.
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 There are many different types of
fisheries and they may be classified in
several ways:
 Type of environment
 Method of harvest
 Type of access permitted
 Organism of concern
 Purpose of fishing
 Degree of wildness

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Type of environment
 Freshwater Habitats
 Lakes
 Reservoirs
 Rivers
 Streams
 Ponds
 Saltwater Habitats
 Estuarine
 Coastal
 Open Ocean
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Lakes
 a large body of water surrounded by
land.

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Reservoirs
 largetank or artificial lake used for
collecting and storing water for
human consumption or agricultural
use.

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Rivers
a natural stream of water that flows
through land and empties into a body
of water such as an ocean or lake

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Streams
anarrow and shallow
river

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Ponds
a
small still body of water formed
naturally or created artificially.

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Estuarine
 the wide lower course of a river where
the tide flows in, causing fresh and
salt water to mix.

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Coastal
 land beside the sea.

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Open ocean
a large expanse of salt water.

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Method of harvest
 Seining

 Trolling

 Trawling

 Spearing

 Dip netting

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Seining
- to catch fish with a seine

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Trolling
- a method of
fishing where one
or more fishing
lines, baited with
lures or bait fish,
are drawn through
the water behind a
moving boat.

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Trawling
- is a method of
fishing that
involves pulling
a large fishing
net through the
water behind
one or more
boats. The net
that is used for
trawling is
called a trawl.
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Spearing
- a form of fishing that
has been popular
throughout the world
for centuries. Early
civilizations are
familiar with the
custom of spearing
fish out of rivers and
streams using
sharpened sticks as a
means of catching
food.
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Dip netting
- a method of fishing
using net or wire
mesh bag attached
to a handle to scoop
fish from water.

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Type of access permitted

 open access to fishing

 open access with regulation

 limited or purchased access

 private property

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Organism of concern
 Examples: salmon, shrimp, turtles,

squid, sharks, sea horses, whales,

swordfish, etc.

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Purpose of fishing
 Subsistence fishing for direct food
consumption
 Commercial fishing for a product to
sell.
 Recreational fishing for sport and
leisure

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Degree of wildness of the target
animals
 totally wild and free-roaming animals

 totally captive animals grown in

ponds
 animals spawned in captivity but
released in the wild to be captured
when they mature

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 The term “Fish”
In biology – the term "fish" is most
strictly used to describe any animal with a
backbone that has gills throughout life and
has limbs, if any, in the shape of fins. Many
types of aquatic animals commonly referred
to as "fish" are not fish in this strict sense;
examples include shellfish, cuttlefish,
starfish, crayfish and jellyfish.

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In fisheries – the term "fish" is used as a
collective term, and includes mollusks,
crustaceans and any aquatic animal which is
harvested. True fish are sometimes referred
to as finfish or fin fish to distinguish them
from other aquatic life harvested in fisheries
or aquaculture.

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