- Duration: 5 Days
Course details
This course reviews the most important aspects of shrimp fisheries management. It will provide the participants with knowledge and experience of recording the following information using a scientifically established procedure: Shrimp catch data; Fishing effort data; Biological information of the most important commercial species and estimate by interviewing the fisherman through systematic sampling days, the following; Total catch, effort and catch per unit of effort; Species catch and catch rate
Objectives
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Fish market: Select the sample day, Interviewing the fisherman, Learn how and how many shrimp samples do we need to buy.
- Laboratory: Identify the commercial shrimp for weighing by sex and Sort the shrimp sample according to: Species/Sex, Maturity stages, Carapace length, Filling the biological data form
- By using special excel sheet program, the following data will be entered: Catch and effort data, Species catch, Carapace length frequency
- The final results: Tables or figures for each samples day as well as for entire month on Total shrimps catch,Total fishing effort, Catch rate, Species composition
Participants
Designed for Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fisheries Resources staff as well as KISR’s staff.
Pre-requisites
Working Knowledge in Arabic and English
Updated on 08 November, 2015About Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
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