Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management

Dr. Michael King is the Associate Director of the Faculty of Fisheries and the Marine Environment at the Australian Maritime College in Tasmania. He has extensive experience in fisheries consultancy work throughout the world, including the development and management of fisheries, assessment of resources and the establishment of research programmers. He has also been involved in numerous fisheries training assignments from Asia to the South pacific in addition to his teaching responsibilities at the Maritime College.

Resource species - molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, and fish; fishing gear and methods (including destructive methods); population dynamics - distribution and abundance, morphometrics, selectivity of fishing gear, growth (including length recruitment, and mortality) catch curves, and cohort analysis; fisheries yield - from classical methods to simulation models; fisheries assessment - data requirements, collection and analyses, potential yield analyses, financial analyses and fisheries monitoring; fisheries management - management objectives and fisheries regulations; management - management objectives and fisheries regulations.