OCN331: Mai ke kai mai ke ola

Philosophy

Our goal is to have a class open to students from a diversity of backgrounds that will provide them with a basic understanding of marine resource use, an issue affecting all of us.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to explain how marine food web processes function to produce commercially important fisheries in various oceanic realms, and discuss reasons for limitations to fisheries catches.

• Students will be able to compare and contrast terrestrial and marine living resource management.

• Students should be able to integrate and frame the impact of indigenous fishery practices and the evolution of fishery technology to various commercially important fisheries throughout the world.

• Students will be able to discuss the basic principles of fisheries management, and deduce the practical and theoretical problems in their application.

• Students will be able to make links between the changing importance of aquaculture globally in supplying seafood to an increasing demand.

• Students will be able to compare and contrast the histories of fisheries and aquaculture in Hawaii, the Pacific Rim, and globally.

• Students will be able to estimate anthropogenic influences on the ocean such as climate change and pollution affecting fisheries.