PhD Campus do Mar. This course will cover a research on the resources based on the knowledge about the ecosystems and their ecological status. This includes European and international management based on the knowledge of the ecosystems, taxonomy, biodiversity, status and trophic relationships, distribution, reproduction, study of ecosystems and their conservation, interactions between species and habitat use. Resource exploitation impact assessment. This includes the study of fishery discards, minimum sizes, social and economic resource exploitation impact, protected areas management, public regulatory policies, social consumption preferences, damage assessment, impact mitigation measures, local and regional impact assessment.