What is Included?
Course Overview
The eight chapters contained in this series provide an opportunity to diagnose fishery challenges and help design a solution in a hypothetical fishery. You can take this course to build your fundamentals in fisheries science, economics, and policy.
Course Curriculum
In this course, you will explore the basics of fisheries management in the context of a fishing community called Playa del Mar. After meeting some fishermen from the industrial and artisanal sectors, hearing their observations about the snapper fishery, you will learn about:
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Diagnosing Fishery Challenges
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Conventional Management Limitations
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Attributes of Sustainable Management
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Designing Secure Fishing Rights
Additional Courses
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Territorial Use Rights for Fishing
CourseTerritorial Use Rights for Fishing (TURFs) are an area-based management approach. In this six-chapter course series, you will learn about TURF design, explore examples of TURFs around the world and will help design a TURF in a hypothetical fishery.
Enroll for freeFree
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Data-Limited Fisheries Management
CourseHow can managers design effective fisheries management when fishery data are limited? In this set of eleven chapters, you will learn and apply each of the eleven steps of EDF's FISHE framework in a hypothetical fishery.
Free
Instructor(s)
Sarah Poon
Associate Vice President, Fishery Solutions Center
Sarah leads a team of multi-disciplinary staff and consultants who work with partners around the world to diagnose fisheries problems and develop durable solutions. Her team provides training, tools and expert consultations to empower EDF’s staff and partners in more than a dozen countries to implement comprehensive, effective fishery management solutions.
Sarah joined EDF in 2011 with a breadth of knowledge in marine science and experience working on complex resource management challenges. Sarah holds a Master of Environmental Science and Management with a Coastal Marine Resources Management specialization from the Bren School at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Aquatic Biology from UCSB.