Contemporary marine resource management focuses

Lecturer: Ting-Chun Kuo (郭庭君)

Email: tckuo@mail.ntou.edu.tw

Phone: 02-2462 2192 #5603

Webpage: imarm.ntou.edu.tw/p/412-1054-8077.php?Lang=zh-tw

Course ID: M37013UJ

Credits: 3

Course Prerequisites: None

Course Description and Goals:

Understand and be able to discuss the important controversial issues in contemporary marine resource management. The students are expected to improve their critical thinking through the class.

Schedule Type:

Students are required to read relevant literature before the class, and we will be discussing the different viewpoints in the class.

Course Schedule (subject to change):

1. Is fishing down marine food webs pervasive?

2. Are all fisheries going to be collapsed by 2048?

3. Should fisheries harvest be balanced across species or selective?

4. Whaling or not whaling?

5. Should we keep cetaceans captive in aquarium?

6. Is climate change happening? How do we know? Are humans the cause of the recent climate change?

7. How does climate change affect marine species? What can we do?

8. Is jellyfish blooming happening?

9. Is marine protected area effective? If so, how?

10. Are planktons the rainforest of ocean? How to balance between eutrophication and carbon fixation?

11. Are there invasive species in the ocean ecosystems? Why and how to prevent?