What is Included?
Course Overview
Territorial 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.
Course Curriculum
In this course, you will learn how to design a TURF in the context of a lobster and grouper fishery in Manggis Bay. After meeting members of the local Management Committee and hearing about the challenges faced by fishery stakeholders, you will work with the Management Committee to develop a plan for sustainable management. Through this exercise, you will learn first-hand about:
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Principles and Design Features of TURFs
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Common Attributes of TURFs
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TURF Design Process Steps
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Defining Management Goals
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Determining Biological Scale of TURFs
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Delineating TURF Boundaries
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Incorporating No-Take Reserves
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Selecting Controls on Fishing Mortality
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Selecting Eligible TURF Participants and Defining Harvest Privileges
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Adaptive Administration and Management of TURFs
Additional Courses
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Introduction to Fisheries Management
CourseThe 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.
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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.
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