99997 - TRANSIZIONE BLU DEGLI ECOSISTEMI MARINI E DELLA PESCA

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Docente: Alice Ferrari
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: BIO/05
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Marine Biology (cod. 8857)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student knows the basic concepts about the evaluation of the effects of fishery activity on marine ecosystems and the mitigation of human impacts on fishery resources according to the CFP (EU Reg.1380/2014) and GFCM Mid-term Strategy. The student will gain kowledge for the enhancement and management of fishery activity based on the bio-ecological approach and on the technological innovation of the supply chain. The student is able: - to integrate science, production and socio-educational components; - to propose mitigation measures to ecosystems' alterations; - to propose flexible models for the management of wild resources actively expressing and debating those proposals.

Course contents

1) Small-scale and artisanal fishery in Italy: methodologies, tools, gears and communities

2) National and International fishery legal frameworks

3) Seasonality, trophic chains and biological traits of commercial (and non-commercial) species (sex maturity, fecundity and mating strategies)

4) Introduction to Adriatic fish stocks (what is a stock?)

5) From sea to fork step by step: the transformation of seafood products

6) The mitigation of anthropogenic impacts on marine resources, tools and management

7) Let's sharpen our wits: discussion and brainstorming on the design of innovative fishing systems

Readings/Bibliography

SUGGESTED BOOKS and OTHER TEACHING MATERIAL

  • Elementi di biologia della pesca (2011)di Giovanni Bambace e Alessandro Lucchetti
  • Sustainable Fishery Systems (2001) by Anthony T. Charles
  • Further teaching material will be provided from the lecturer

Teaching methods

1. Lectures with PowerPoint projection and scientific clips related to National and International initiatives focussing on sustainable fishery sector. Possibility to host foreigner Professors and colleagues.

2. Round tables

3. Lab practicals

Assessment methods

Oral exam on the program.

Teaching tools

Computer and video projector

Office hours

See the website of Alice Ferrari