FISH 506G / SPPG 544
Economic Foundations of Environmental Policies
FISH 506G / SPPG 544 Credits: 3
Environmental and natural resource economics: externalities, property rights, public goods, market failure, inter-generational trade-offs, and optimal extraction of biological and depletable resources. Environmental regulation, industrial competitiveness, and distribution of income and welfare.
Term 1
FISH 506H / STAT 547N
Statistics in Ecology and Marine Sciences
FISH 506H / STAT 547N Credits: 1.5
Data in ecology and marine sciences are frequently associated with large challenges. This class will introduce some of the challenges of using statistics to answer questions in ecology and marine sciences and the statistical tools developed to handle them. This course is a statistics class for graduate students in the Department of Statistics (STAT) and the Ocean and Fisheries Graduate program (OCF). This class is intended for students with good statistics background and some familiarity with R. The class is not recommended for students with little experience analyzing data and those with limited R programming skills.
Term 1
FISH 506I / EOSC 448
Governance and Relationality in Indigenous Fisheries
FISH 506I / EOSC 448 Credits: 3
This course creates an opportunity for network-building and co-learning across the province of so-called British Columbia and beyond. Students can enrol as graduate students (FISH 506i / EOSC 448) and undergraduate or non-degree seeking students, and we welcome registrants from and beyond UBC. Admission to this course is by application (linked here once posted each year), and given our focus and intentions for this course, priority access is given to BC First Nations.
Term 2
FISH 506J
Managing nature: the case of fisheries
FISH 506J Credits: 3
Course will be taught online, with part of the audience at UBC and part at Paris-Dauphine. It is projected that available technology will allow 7 sessions to be held in-person at UBC, with the Dauphine audience attending remotely, and 7 sessions to be held in-person at Dauphine, with the UBC audience attending remotely. If technology fails, 12 sessions will be held remotely at both sides, and 2 sessions will be held, in-person and separately, at each site.
Rashid Sumaila and Ivar Ekeland (Dauphine)
Not offered 2025/26
FISH 506M
Effective scientific poster communication
FISH 506M Credits: 1
Most scientists, particularly in the early phases of their career, are expected to present the results of their research in the form of a conference poster. Yet unlike oral presentations, students receive little training on this mode of scientific communication. The course material will be conveyed through a series of weekly instructor and student-led seminars that include presentations and group discussion. This course is offered in-person only.
Not offered 2025/26
FISH 505
Quantitative Analysis of Fisheries 2
FISH 505 Credits: 3
This course examines advanced concepts and methods in fish population dynamics and stock assessment, with emphasis on design of harvest policies for sustainable fisheries. Through a mixture of lecture and tutorial sessions, students learn to apply the main methods used today for fisheries assessment, along with pitfalls and examples of where these methods have failed.
Not offered 2025/6
FISH 506P
Indigenous Community-Based Researcher Pathway
FISH 506P Credits: 3
The Indigenous Community-Based Researcher Pathway was established by IOF’s Indigenous Initiatives Committee (with unanimous IOF support) in 2023. We created this Pathway to enable graduate students to complete their program requirements at a distance, if desired, in whole or in part, so they may reside in their Indigenous community context(s) during their studies. By creating a flexible learning environment for students, this Pathway supports a range of UBC and IOF institutional and strategic goals, namely UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan
Term 1
FISH 506R
Fisheries and Population Modelling Methods Using R
FISH 506R Credits: 3
R (R Core Team 2019) is the most commonly used programming language for fisheries and ecological modeling and data analysis. Courses in ecology and statistics have become commonly taught with R as the statistical software of choice. R is used, among other things, for conventional statistical analyses, for plotting purposes, to code up computer simulation models representing fish, invertebrate and mammal population dynamics, and to manage implementations of Bayesian statistical packages such as WinBUGS, JAGS and STAN.
Not offered 2025/26
FISH 506Y
Community Driven Science: Developing Tools For Partnered Research With A Focus On Indigenous Communities and Aquatic Science
FISH 506Y Credits: 3
This course will provide students and those new to community-driven research–especially in partnership with Indigenous communities–with the knowledge, skills and ethical foundations needed to engage in anti-colonial research. With an emphasis on fisheries and aquatic research, this course challenges traditional academic approaches where students will explore how to collaborate with Indigenous communities to co-create knowledge and engage in research supporting Indigenous sovereignty, knowledge systems and priorities.
Term 2
FISH 504
Quantitative Analysis of Fisheries 1
FISH 504 Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to the quantitative theories of fishery dynamics, and the use of various types of analytical methods for fishery assessment. Lectures are supplemented with tutorial sessions, mainly using Microsoft Excel, where students first work on set problems in class, followed by extended analyses to consolidate understanding and familiarity with methods of analysis.
Not offered 2025/6