Eby, Lisa A.

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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025 Spring 2-1-2023 WILD 408.01: Advanced Fisheries Lisa A. Eby University of Montana, Missoula, lisa.eby@umontana.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi2021-2025 Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Eby, Lisa A., "WILD 408.01: Advanced Fisheries" (2023). University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025. 1018. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi2021-2025/1018 This Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. WILD  408   Advanced Fisheries    Spring 2023 Instructor: Lisa Eby Office: BioResearch Building 103 University Email: lisa.eby@umontana.edu Office hours: Tuesday 1-2pm, and Thursday 12:30-2pm, or by appointment (please confirm by email) Course description: Fisheries management consists of three interrelated processes: fish populations, fish habitat, and people. This course introduces some of the fundamental principles and approaches of inland fisheries ecology and management. Through general readings and specific case studies we will explore the challenges of balancing multiple human values in managing fisheries resources.  We will focus on understanding  1. The drivers of change in fish populations, 2. Quantitative nature of fish population assessment, 3. Fish habitat requirements, impacts, and restoration, 4. Harvest and other social/economic value of fisheries, 5. Complexity of ecological interactions linking fish to other components of aquatic ecosystems and broader social community.  This course, in combination with 2 others, fulfills the upper division writing requirement for Wildlife Biology majors. The UM upper-division writing requirement includes: (1) Identify and pursue more sophisticated questions for academic inquiry, (2) Find, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information effectively from diverse sources, (3) Manage multiple perspectives as appropriate, (4) Recognize the purposes and needs of discipline-specific audiences and adopt the academic voice necessary for the chosen discipline, (5) Use multiple drafts, revision, and editing in conducting inquiry and preparing written work, (6) Follow the conventions of citation, documentation, and formal presentation appropriate to that discipline, and (7) Develop competence in information technology and digital literacy. Textbook: Hubert and Quist (eds).  Inland Fisheries Management in North America.  American Fisheries Societt.  American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland is a good textbook and we will be reading several chapters from that book this semester. These chapters and all of the addition readings are posted on the Moodle site in pdf format. Grading policy: Proposal Proposal prospectus is due March 3rd in class, proposal draft due April 7th, review of proposals due April 17th, and final proposal due May 5th.  Proposals (15% of your grade, draft and final) should be no longer than ten pages, including figures, tables, and a brief resume of the principal investigator. The following information must be provided: (a) Principal Investigator name & affiliation; (b) Title of project; (c) Description of project: this section should include a brief introduction to the problem, your specific objectives, your study plan; (d) Expected benefit/results of project to fish management; (e) Proposed project schedule and timeframe (not longer than 2 years for the entire project); (f) Biographical information. Each person must provide a brief resume summarizing his/her qualifications and experience; (g) Budget Table (no more than $75,000 for the two years), you need to include salary (# people, # days, hourly pay), fringe (12% of salary for people you employ less than 6 months, 30% of salary for people you employ for longer), supplies needed to perform the project, travel ($0.54/mile and any per diem), equipment use or rental (boat days, etc.), and equipment repair. Turn in 3 copies of your proposal. If you plagiarize, you will get a zero for the proposal. A 5% per day late penalty will be assessed unless prior arrangements are made.  Reviewing 2 proposals will be an assignment. Proposals will be evaluated on organization, writing, scientific/technical merit, feasibility, and benefits to fisheries management.  Review sheets will be provided.  Students will have a week to complete the review and turn it in at the panel discussion evaluating which proposals will be funded.  I will also comment on drafts for the final version. The proposal grades are based on grading rubric not on whether your proposal gets funded. Your proposal review is based upon your ability to provide constructive, positive comments that improve the proposal (aspects for comment include: the design, methods, organization, and writing)  Assignments (65%) Computational and written assignments will be passed out in class throughout the semester.  There are multiple assignments (as listed in syllabus). Students are free to discuss results, but all components of the assignments must be prepared individually. All written material, calculations and graphs to be handed in must be your own work (answers must be in your own words). If you plagiarize, you will get a zero for the assignment.  A second infraction will result in failing the course. A 5% per day late penalty will be assessed unless prior arrangements are made. Participation and Discussions (15%) Come to class with readings perused and assignments complete and ready to participate in class (15%).  Professional Points (5%): Participation in AFS Chapter meetings to hear professionals (Thursdays 6pm), going to MT Chapter AFS (Feb 21-24, Butte), and/or participating in the Clark Fork River Science Forum (April 20-21) in Missoula.  You must have documented attendance and turn in summaries of talks     Course Calendar (subject to change as opportunities arise):  Dates  Topic  Reading Assignments Jan 18 Class introduction, what is fisheries, & What is in a resume and cover letter?   1. Find one job announcement, write a cover letter and resume.  Jan 20 History of inland fisheries management  Whelan et al. 2020. Tracking Fisheries Through Time: AFS as a historical lens      Jan 23 Adaptive management and co-management. Reid et al. “Two-eyed seeing”: an indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management. See Moodle for focus questions Jan 25  Fisheries Process and Management tools  Optional: Arlinghaus et al. Ch 6.3   Jan 27  Using marketing to promote sustainability discussion  Discussion of assignment and using consumer choice in promoting sustainability 2. Where is my fish from?       Jan 30 Historical perspectives: overexploitation in recreational fisheries  Post et al. 2002. Canada’s Recreational Fisheries: the invisible collapse. Fisheries.  Feb 1 Consideration of current concerns in exploitation of recreational fisheries: increasing effort on small populations, and interactions of temperature and recovery  Meyer et al. 2022. Effects of elevated water temperature on cutthroat trout angler catch rates and catch and release mortality in Idaho streams.  Fisheries Management and Ecology Roth et al. 2018 Effects of air exposure in summer on the survival of CR salmonids. NAJFM   Feb 3 Ethics in fisheries discussion Ch 15. The Ethics of Exploitation and Intervention: Do We Have the Right? In Fish Conservation 3. In class discussion and assignment on ethics in fisheries.      Feb 6 Populations, metapopulations, and issues of scale Riemann and Dunham 2000. Metapopulations and salmonids: a synthesis of life history patterns and empirical observation. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 9:51-64.  Dates  Topic  Reading Assignments Feb 8 Coldwater streams and habitats Fausch et al. 2002. Landscapes to Riverscapes: Bridging the gap between research and conservation of stream fishes.  Bioscience 52. Optional: Ch 3 Scale and Fisheries Mgmt in Inland Fisheries Management   Feb 10 Considerations in Design and Monitoring discussion Ch 18 Design and analysis for monitoring 4. In class group activity for Design and Monitoring, scale considerations in monitoring and research designs.  Complete on own for an assignment.     Feb 13 Bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout status, limiting factors, and threats  Sinnatamby et al. 2019. Threats to at-risk salmonids of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Region Ecology of Freshwater Fishes.  Feb 15 Common techniques for Restoration in lotic systems and lessons from intensively monitored watersheds  Roni et al. 2002; Optional Foote et al. 2019   Feb 17  Blackfoot Case study: Restoration discussion Pierce et al. 2019 & MFWP Blackfoot management plans 5. Blackfoot assignment reviewing management plans and considerations     Feb 22 Feb 20 (President’s Day)  MT AFS   Watched taped talks and answer questions   Feb 25 The Catch 22: Isolation versus connection in conservation of inland fish species discussion   6. Review taped talks and submit assignment for main points and questions     Feb 27 Using the recreational fisheries to reduce exotics Paul et al. 2003  Mar 1 Fish population sampling techniques Mark-recapture and Depletion examples  Mar 3 Fish population sampling techniques: design issues Roni et al. 2019 7. Proposal Prospectus     Mar 6 Sampling the fisheries Creel surveys and angler observations  Chapter 21: Sampling the recreational fishery  Mar 8 Sampling the fisheries Creel surveys and angler observations  TBD  Mar 10 Class discussion of Blackfoot case study assignment  8. In class discussion of Blackfoot case study evaluating restoration success assignment      Mar 13 Natural Lakes and food webs Ch 15 Inland Fisheries Management   Mar 15 Management and Ecology of Lake Food webs  Ellis et al. 2011  Mar 17 Case Study: Flathead Lake EIS Lake Trout Suppression for Flathead Lake   (work on proposal outline and methods) Mar 20 Spring Break (Mar 20-24)   Mar 27 Deriving demographic parameters EIS Lake Trout Suppression for Flathead Lake    Mar 29 Deriving demographic parameters Ch 2 Inland Fisheries Management p 43-55  Dates  Topic  Reading Assignments Mar 31 Deriving demographic parameters  9. Demographic Estimation Assignment     Apr 3 Introduction to population models   Apr 5 Population modeling of Flathead Lake Population Modeling Appendix of EIS Lake Trout Suppression for Flathead Lake  For reference: age based matrix models  Apr 7 Population modeling of Flathead Lake Hansen et al. 2016 Lake trout suppression for bull trout recovery in Flathead Lake. Hydrobiologia  Full Draft Proposals: Due April 7th     Apr 10 Population modeling Age structured models  Apr 12 Population modeling   Apr 14  Class discussion of Lake Trout Population Model Assignment: What can we achieve?  10. Population modeling assignment         Apr 17 In case of field trip? TBD   Apr 19 River Ecology and limiting factors Ch 20: Inland Fisheries Management  Apr 21 River Ecology and limiting factors  11. In Class Discussion: Proposal Reviews due     Apr 24 River Ecology and limiting factors   Apr 26 Limiting factors and management of anadromous fishes TBD  Apr 28 Discussion on limiting factors and management of anadromous fishes TBD 12. Angler observation or creel Assignment?       May 1  Use of cultured fish in fisheries management? Ch 9: Inland Fisheries Management  May 3 In case field trip to hatchery   May 5 Class wrap up  13.. Assignment anadromous fish case study     Course guidelines and policies:  Students with Disabilities Statement  https://www.umt.edu/disability/  Students with disabilities may request reasonable modifications by contacting ODE and myself. The University of Montana assures equal access to instruction through collaboration between students with disabilities, instructors, and the Office for Disability Equity (ODE). If you think you may have a disability adversely affecting your academic performance, and you have not already registered with ODE, please contact them. I will work with you and ODE to provide an appropriate modification. Student Conduct Code Statement  https://www.umt.edu/student-affairs/community-standards/default.php  o All students must practice academic honesty.  Academic misconduct is subject to an academic penalty by the course instructor and/or a disciplinary sanction by the University.  All students need to be familiar with the https://www.umt.edu/student-affairs/community-standards/um_student_code_of_conduct_effective_8-1-2021.pdf    o Plagiarism occurs when a writer uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.  Please do not plagiarize.  Course Withdrawal Deadlines Statement  https://www.umt.edu/registrar/calendar/spring.php Important Dates Restricting Opportunities to Drop a Course Spring 2023 (please check registrar website):  To 7th instructional day  Jan 25th  Students can add classes on Cyberbear without consent of instructor To 15th instructional day  Feb 6th  Students can drop classes on Cyberbear with partial refund, switch to CR/NCR, or change variable credit courses. 16th to 45th instructional day March 28th  Through Spring Class Day 45:  Spring course adds & drops require instructor’s & advisor’s approval using the Course Add/Change/Drop link in CyberBear.  $10 fee applies per add or drop.  A ‘W’ will appear on the transcript for dropped classes.  No refunds.  Students can change variable credit amounts and grading options (except audit) on eligible courses using the Course Add/Change/Drop link in CyberBear.   Beginning 46th instructional day After Spring Class Day 45:  Adds require instructor’s & advisor’s approval using the Course Add/Change/Drop link.  $10 fee applies.  Drops require instructor’s, advisor’s, & Dean’s approval via Course Add/Change/Drop link. $10 fee applies.  A ‘WP’ or ‘WF’ will appear on the transcript for dropped classes.  No refunds.  Students can change variable credit amounts, or change grading options, (except audit) using the Course/Add/Change Drop link in CyberBear. .   

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