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Week 9

  Readings

For the week: Naylor, R.L. et al. 2000. Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies. Nature 405:1017-1024.

Williams, T.T. 1995. Winter solstice at the Moab Slough. Pp 61-66 in An Unspoken Hunger; Stories from the Field. Vintage Books, New York.

Wilson, E.O. 1984. The conservation ethic. Pp 119-140 in Biophilia. Harvard Univ. Press.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon 23 May

MD2 Presentations - Donna's Sections

Wed 25 May

MD2 Presentations - Josh's Sections

Th 26 May

Movie: Farming the Seas (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri 27 May

MD2 Presentations - Jessie's Sections

Section 1 (M or Tu) – Essay 2 Reflection Draft DUE

Section 2 (W or Th) – TBA

Week 10

  Readings

For the week: Orr, D.W. 2002. Four challenges to sustainability. Cons Biol. 16:1457-1460.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon 30 May

Memorial Day Holiday

Wed 1 Jun

Sustainability – What does it take?

Thur 2 Jun

Movie: TBA (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri 3 Jun

Conservation Ethic (Essay 2 DUE)

Section 1 (M or Tu) – Holiday

Section 2 (W or Th) – Final Exam Review

Week 11 - Finals Week

  Final Exam Mon 6 Jun at 8:30-10:30am FSH 102

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Unit 3: Pacific Northwest Fisheries (Weeks 7-8)

Week 7

  Readings

For the week: Hilborn, R. et. al. 2003. Biocomplexity and fisheries sustainability.
Proceedings Nat. Acad. Sci. 100:6564-6568

Levin, P.S. and M.H. Schiewe. 2001. Preserving salmon biodiversity. Am.
Sci. 89:220-227.

Berry, W. 1990. An argument for diversity. Pp. 109-122 in W. Berry, What
Are People For? North Point Press, San Francisco.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon 9 May

PNW Fisheries I

Wed 11 May

PNW Fisheries II

Th 12 May

Movie: Oregon MPA video, student survey (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri 13 May

PNW Fisheries III

Section 1 (M or Tu) – Reflection 6 DUE

Section 2 (W or Th) – TBA

Week 8

  Readings

For the week: Clarren, R. 2004. Mending the nets. High Country News 2 Feb 2004.

Earle, S.A. 19??. Introduction. Sea Changes; A Message of the Oceans. G.P. Purnam, New York.

Connelly, M. 2002. Home is where they’ll lay me down. Orion, Summer 2001.

McCovey, B.W. 2002. For the Yurok, salmon is everything. Indian Country Today.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon 16 May

PNW Fisheries IV

Wed 18 May

Guest Lectures – Donna Hauser, Jessica Hayden-Spear – Puget Sound Story

Thur 19 Apr

Movie: Klamath River Films

Fri 20 May

Guest Lecutre - Josh Strange, The Klamath River Story

Section 1 (M or Tu) – MD2 Presentations

Section 2 (W or Th) – MD2 Presentations

Unit 2: Westen Pacific Coral Reefs (Weeks 5-6)

Week 5

  Readings

For the week: Safina, pp. 303-349

Hughes, T.P. et al. 2003. Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs. Science 301:929-933

Johannes, R.E. 1981. The traditional conservation ethic and its decline. Chapt 5 in Words of the Lagoon. Univ. CA Press

By Wed: Pauly, D. 1995. Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries. TREE 10(10):430.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon 25 Apr

Coral Reefs – An Introduction

Wed 27 Apr

Guest lecture – Prof. Tim Essington, SAFS, Shifting Baselines

Th 28 April

Movie: BLUE PLANET, Coral Reefs (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri 29 Apr

Coral Reefs – The Living Veneer (I)

Section 1 (M or Tu) – no reflection due

Section 2 (W or Th) – Assign Essay 1

Week 6

  Readings

For the week: Safina, pp. 350-434

Hughes, T.P. 1994. Catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef. Science 265:1547-1551.

Kingsolver, B. 2002. A fist in the eye of God. Pp93-108 in B. Kingsolver, Small Wonder. Harper Collins, New York.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon 2 May

Coral Reefs – The Living Veneer – Part II

Wed 4 May

Coral Reef Fisheries

Th, 7 Apr

Movie: Perils of Plectropomus (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri 6 May

Guest lecture – Prof. Daniel Schindler, Lake Victoria and Lake Washington

ESSAY 1 DUE IN LECTURE ON FRIDAY!

Section 1 (M or Tu) – Essay 1 "Draft" DUE

Section 2 (W or Th) – TBA

 OLD MATERIAL BELOW

  Unit 1: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna and Swordfish (Weeks 1-4)

Week 1

  Readings

For the week: Safina, Preface, pp. 3-24

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon, 28 Mar

Orientation

Wed, 30 Mar

Through the Looking Glass

Th, 31 Mar

Movie: BLUE PLANET I (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri, 1 Apr

What is a Fishery? (Guest Lecture)

Section 1 (M or Tu) – Orientation

Section 2 (W or Th) – "Sea and Me" reflection DUE

Week 2

  Readings

For the week: Safina, pp. 25-77; Greenlaw, pp. 1-100

For Monday: Ryther, J.H. 1969. Photosynthesis and fish production in the sea. Science 166: 72-76.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon, 4 Apr

Life in the Ocean I

Wed, 6 Apr

Life in the Ocean II

Th, 7 Apr

Movie: Bluefin Tuna, Mattanza (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri, 8 Apr

Film: Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

Section 1 (M or Tu) – 1 page reflection DUE

Section 2 (W or Th) – TBA

Week 3

  Readings

For the week: Safina, pp. 78-116; Greenlaw, pp. 101-end

Watson, T. 1993. Why some fish are hotheads. Science 260: 160-161.

Wohlforth, C. 2004. On thin ice. Orion March/April 2004, pp 46-53.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon, 14 Apr

Bluewater Hunters

Wed, 16 Apr

The Numbers of Life

Th, 17 Apr

Movie: Baraka (5:30PM, FSH 102)

Fri, 18 Apr

Guest Lecture - Climate Change

Section 1 (M or Tu) - 1 page reflection DUE

Section 2 (W or Th) - TBA

Week 4

  Readings

For the week: Myers, R.A. and B. Worm. 2003. Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature 423:280-283.

Magnuson, J., C. Safina and M.P. Sissenwine. 2001. Whose fish are they anyway? Science 293: 1267-1268.

  Lectures, movie and discussion sections

Mon, 18 Apr

Bluefin Fisheries

Wed, 20 Apr

Summary of Unit 1

Th, 21 Apr

Movie: No movie this week, study hard!

Fri, 22 Apr

MIDTERM I

Section 1 (M or Tu) – Unit 1 Review, 1 page reflecton DUE

Section 2 (W or Th) – Unit 1 Review, no reflection assignment