Instructor: Michael J. Hansen

Office: 174 CNR

Office Hours: posted on my office door

Office Phone: 715/346-3420

Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday 11:00-11:50

Classroom: 255 CNR

Discussion: Wednesday 15:00-16:50

Classroom: 361 CNR

Objectives: The course will introduce students to the process of fishery management; principles of fishery science that are basic to fishery management; ecological, economic, political, and sociocultural environment within which fishery management operates; means by which fish, fish habitat and fishery users are manipulated to achieve fishery management objectives; and examples of how fisheries are managed in streams, rivers, lakes, the Great Lakes, and the oceans.  Students will develop a management plan for a fishery in Wisconsin, present the plan to their peers for review, and defend the plan's component actions.

Textbook: Kohler, Christopher C., and Wayne A. Hubert, editors.  1999.  Inland Fisheries Management in North America, 2^nd Edition.  American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. [All students are urged to purchase, rather than rent, the textbook to ensure they begin the acquisition of a library of crucial reference books.]

Format: The two weekly lectures will cover the history of fishery management, basic concepts of fishery science, means by which fish populations, fish habitat, and fishery users are manipulated to achieve management objectives, and case studies of fisheries in Wisconsin.  Professional fishery managers who are actually working on those systems will deliver the case studies of fisheries in Wisconsin.  The weekly discussions will be used to discuss the status of fishery management in Wisconsin with professional fishery managers and researchers, to critically review fishery management issues, and to report on class projects.  Each student will be assigned to work on a team whose task is to develop and report on a management plan for a real fishery.  The final exam will be a mock interview for a job with a fishery management agency.

Grading: Assignments will not be accepted if they are turned in after the due date, other than for emergencies.  Final grades for the course will be awarded based on the following:  A = 93%; A‑ = 90%; B+ = 85%; B = 80%; B‑ = 75%; C+ = 70%; C = 65%; C‑ = 60%; D+ = 55%; D = 50%; F = <50%.  The final class grade will be weighted according to the schedule below: