There are still available seats on FSK-8010 Marine litter and arctic fisheries: challenges and solutions starting 12 September. Follow the link for more information.
This PhD course will be focused at Arctic fisheries and the impact from marine litter and possible methods to mitigate problems related to pollution of important fishing grounds. Loss of plastics, including modern fishing gears, is a global problem and causes challenges like ghost fisheries and unaccounted mortality. It is estimated that the loss of potential harvest from commercially important fish counts billions of euros annually. Students will be given firsthand knowledge on how fishing gears are built from various materials and introduced to methods to record, measure and mitigate marine litter during theoretical training and field-work.
This course will be linked to the UArctic - University of the Arctic network and focus primarily on circumpolar issues, including circularity and governance initiatives to introduce alternative materials in fisheries and aquaculture.
Lectures will be given by invited speakers and researchers attached to SFI Dsolve.