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Fishery Resources

Would you like to make a contribution to insure that clean water and fishing are a part of the future?  
     Are you interested in working outdoors to help clean up the environment? Then you may want to consider a career in fishery resources. 
     As a professional you may work in a fish hatchery, follow salmon up rivers, set nets in high mountain lakes, talk to anglers to find out what they are catching, or take samples of check for water pollution

What Training and Skills Will I Need?   Up

Fisheries professionals work with fish, the water in which they live, and with people. To understand how humans fish, and water interact, you need a firm foundation in the

  • basic biological and social sciences,
  • mathematics
  • statistics
  • basic ecology

Once you have that foundation, you will move on to applied courses such as

  • fish ecology and management
  • population dynamics
  • applied fisheries management principles
  • legal basis for fisheries management

Summer Employment   Up

You can find degree-related summer employment through our placement services. Most of our students spend one or more summers working for a natural resources agency

Why the UI?  Up

The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at the University of Idaho is one of the leading schools in fishery and wildlife resources in the nation. Currently we have more than 200 undergraduate fishery and wildlife majors studying with 14 fulltime faculty. 

Our students are among the most successful anywhere at finding jobs in their chosen profession.


"I came to the College of Natural Resources because of its outstanding reputation in natural resources. I left with professional contacts and a great job." 

Kassandra Brown, 
Fishery Resources, LaGrande, Oregon


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