Introduction to stock assessment
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Welcome to the Introduction to stock assessment at Fisheries and Oceans Canada online course
Course objectives
Video transcript
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Narrator: Welcome to the introduction to stock assessment online course from Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
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Narrator: This course has 4 learning modules, each divided into units.
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Narrator: Upon completing this course, participants will have a greater understanding of Canada's stock assessment process
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Narrator: The role of stock assessment in fisheries science in Canada
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Narrator: General fisheries science and stock assessment principles
Narrator: Participants will also be familiar with reference points and stock status as tools for fishery management
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Narrator: And Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat peer review process.
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Narrator: Please note that this course will not:
Narrator: provide background information on statistics or ecology;
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Narrator: include stock assessment model equations and mathematics;
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Narrator: cover detailed fisheries science and stock assessment concepts.
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Narrator: This course aims to demonstrate that the development of fisheries science advice is an essential part of the data-to-decision process.
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Narrator: Enjoy the course!
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This course has 4 learning modules, each divided into units.
Module 1: Principles of stock assessment
Unit 1.1: Canada's approach to fisheries science
Unit 1.2: What is stock assessment?
Unit 1.3: Stock status and reference points
Module 2: Conducting stock assessments
Unit 2.1: Types of data
Unit 2.2: Data collection
Unit 2.3: Research
Unit 2.4: Model-based stock assessments
Unit 2.5: Model-free stock assessments
Module 3: Stock assessment results
Unit 3.1: Outputs
Unit 3.2: Management strategy evaluation
Unit 3.3: Uncertainty
Module 4: Science advice
Unit 4.1: Canadian science advisory secretariat
Unit 4.2: Participating in peer review meetings
Unit 4.3: Reaching consensus
Unit 4.4: Conflicts of interest
It will take about 1 hour and 20 minutes to go through the entire course. However, you do not have to do the whole course in a single session. You can take breaks at any time and come back to where you left off. It's also not necessary to complete the modules in the order in which they have been presented.
To move through the course, you can select a module or unit from the left menu, then use the "next" or "previous" buttons at the top or bottom right-hand side of the page to move 1 screen forward or back within a lesson.
The course menu, resources, and glossary are always available at the left of the screen. Throughout the course, glossary terms will be available as links to the glossary definition.
The content in this course is organized by using 3 colours to differentiate various elements. Here is the legend:
Disclaimer
The following training is for information purposes only. It is not a substitute for the Fisheries Act or its Regulations. In the event of an inconsistency between this training and the Fisheries Act or its Regulations, the legislation will prevail.
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