A Survey of Academic Qualifications for Fishery Biologists and of Institutional Facilities for Training Fishery Biologists

Autor: H. J. Deason
Rok vydání: 1941
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Zdroj: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 70:128-142
ISSN: 1548-8659
0002-8487
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1940)70[128:asoaqf]2.0.co;2
Popis: The perplexity of students, prospective students, and educators concerning requisite academic training for fishery biology has prompted a survey to provide basic and comparative data. A questionnaire was circulated among the 68 fishery biologists employed by the Fish and Wildlife Service and an almost equal number of fishery biologists in the employ of various States, Provinces and private institutions which requested an evaluation of academic subjects in relation to undergraduate and early postgraduate training for eight phases of fishery biology. The results consist of a composite evaluation of fundamental courses as essential, desirable, optional, or not necessary expressed on a percentage basis. Instruction in the form of specialized courses in fishery subjects and hydrobiology in the United States and Canada was determined by means of a second questionnaire submitted to a qualified faculty member of each of 80 of the principal universities and colleges. Forty-three schools now provide some i...
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