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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3 Description: Introduces students to today's Aquaculture industry. Emphasizes terminology, historical background and basic principles and practices. Commonly cultured fish species and other products of aquacultural significance are covered. Local, state and federal policies governing aquaculture operations as well as career opportunities are discussed. Students study factors to consider before starting a business.
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5.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 5 Description: Introduces the study of fish. Focuses on fish anatomy and physiology, reproduction and development, behavior and activities, nomenclature and taxonomy, and evolution and adaptations. Covers the basic anatomy of fish and their organ systems and includes the laboratory dissection of yellow perch as well as other species of fish. The course also includes a survey of the important families of fishes with emphasis on species of aquacultural significance. Students use taxonomic keys to identify individual species and become familiar with life histories and evolutionary adaptations.
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5.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 5 Description: Introduces students to the most common diseases that inflict aquacultural fish species. Covers bacterial, viral, parasitic, mycotic, nutritional and environmental disease. Studies the disease processes in fish as well as the immune response in fish. Laboratory focuses on proper necropsy and sample taking techniques, fish health assessment, disease diagnosis and prognosis, and prescribed therapies. Students perform calculated treatments using various FDA approved chemotherapeutic compounds. Safety and handling of chemotherapeutic is stressed.
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4.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 4 Description: Introduces students to the nutritional aspects of both warm water and cold water fishes. Covers the fish's digestive anatomy, nutritional requirements, metabolic pathways, diets and available food sources. Laboratory focuses on calculation of appropriate feeding levels and feed conversions for developing fish as well as hands on practice of feeding fish through actual production cycles and experimental feeding trials. Feeding practices and methodology is emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 4 Description: Introduces students to the examination of the aquatic environment as it relates to freshwater fish growth, development and health. Concentrates on aspects of water quality, which determine the suitability of water for holding and rearing of aquatic plants and animals. Presents methods and techniques to alter or improve water quality in response to changing environmental conditions or changes in husbandry. Provides a practical hands on approach to water quality principles and management by stressing testing and analysis of water samples under laboratory and field conditions. Students become proficient in analytical procedures used for the determination of various water characteristics critical to fish culture. CoRequisite:Water Quality for Freshwater Fishes laboratory
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3 Description: Covers the basic biological and production requirements for commonly cultured fish species in ponds, tanks, cages, raceways and recirculating systems. Basic fish handling procedures, aquacultural considerations and inventory practices are emphasized. Detailed record keeping is stressed to allow for accurate predictions of fish growth, feed requirements and production costs. Students are introduced to the common technologies currently employed in the industry. It is an introductory course that provides a background for the advanced Aquaculture II classes in which the student will raise some of the fish species introduced in Aquaculture I.
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5.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 5 Description: Exposes students to the day-to-day duties, responsibilities and production strategies associated with the propagation, feeding, care, transfer and harvest of commonly cultured fish species. Emphasizes technological exposure, hands on involvement and farm safety through the actual production of various fish species. PreRequisite: AQT-110, Aquaculture I. CoRequisite: Concurrent enrollment in AQT-110
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4.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 4 Description: Engages the student in the mock planning, design and construction of a fish production facility under a given set of specifications. Students strive to successfully address all the major physical and biological concerns related to the development of an aquacultural enterprise including elementary hydraulics, energy requirements, capital construction and operation costs, as well as water and land requirements for the annual production of a target specie(s). Innovation, creativity and technology usage is stressed. Students build upon their visitations and critiques of various pond, raceway and tank production facilities previous to the design project. PreRequisite: strongly recommended for the second year student of aquaculture. CoRequisite: strongly recommended for the second year student of aquaculture.
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4.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 4 Description: Engages the student in the development of mock business and marketing plans. Students are exposed to the dynamics and general economics of an aquaculture business on a small family farm scale, a large corporate scale and a public or governmental scale. Students are presented with the factors that influence and affect competition within the industry as well as the principles, strategies and costs associated with the marketing and sales of aquacultural products. Various fish species actually produced in Aquaculture II are marketed and sold through this course. Industry ethics and entering into contractual business agreements are stressed. PreRequisite: strongly suggested for the second year student CoRequisite: strongly suggested for the second year student
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0.50 Credits
Credit Hours: 0.5 Max Credit: 6 Description: Provides students with a vehicle to pursue in depth exploration of special topics of interest.
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