MAR 549 - Analysis of Tagging Data

Credits 3
Lecture
This course provides instruction, demonstration and student projects in modeling tagging data, as applied to the estimation of abundance, mortality, movement or growth of fishery resources. Mark-recapture experiments have been a tool for estimating population parameters for over a century, but tag technology and analytical methods have advanced rapidly over the last decade, producing a variety of methods. This course attempts to provide a unifying approach to modeling tagging data, from simple capture-recapture methods assuming closed populations to fully-integrated, demographic models of fishery, survey and conventional tagging or telemetry data.

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