Concepts in Aquaculture

ID & WSU Fish 422

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(Spring 2010)

3 Credits

Instructor: Ken Cain (885-7608)

Teaching Assistant: Jimmy Barron (885-5830)

Lectures: 12:30 – 1:20 pm TR CNR 108

Lab: 2:30 – 5:20 pm W CNR 25

Course Objectives

Following successful completion of this course students should:

  1. Understand basic aspects of spawning, hatching, and rearing of finfish associated with extensive and intensive aquaculture.
  1. Be capable of implementing a production plan for a group of finfish, either for conservation (resource based) or commercial (foodfish) purposes.
  1. Utilize concepts related to the “no-effect” limits of the aquatic environment for rearing of finfish.
  1. Use concepts presented in the course to appropriately prevent or minimize impacts of non-infectious and infectious disease episodes in an aquaculture system.

To satisfy objectives set forth in this course, students must attend scheduled lectures and laboratory sessions. If concerns arise, students should meet with the instructor during scheduled office hours or by arranged appointments. One field trip to tour Aquaculture facilities in southern Idaho will be scheduled. Lecture notes and laboratory materials will be posted on the website or, in some cases, provided in class. Students should download and print these prior to each class.

Primary lecture topics:

  1. General introduction to fish culture with focus on extensive and intensive rearing methods as they apply to private (commercialfoodfish) and public (state, federal, tribal) aquaculture.
  1. Qualitative and quantitative concepts of managing intensive finfish culture systems.
  1. Qualitative and quantitative concepts of finfish feeding.

Laboratory:

  1. Provide the opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience in raising finfish.
  1. Introduce students to recirculating and flow through aquaculture system and allow them to gain experience in water quality testing,
  1. Allow students to apply concepts discussed in class to estimate size, time to market/harvest, and cost of production for the fish they rear in class.

Textbooks for course:

Fish Hatchery Management 2nd Edition, Wedemeyer: Required

Principles of Aquaculture, Robert R. Stickney 502p: Recommended

Fish for the Future: Concepts and Methods of Intensive Aquaculture,

George W. Klontz: Required

In addition, various handout materialsmay be assigned and will be provided or available online.

Lab Assignments

Students will be required to maintain a laboratory notebook. This should be a 3-ring binder and each student will need one for handouts, data forms, homework, laboratory notes/observations, growth data/calculations, inventory records, water quality results, etc. A group report and presentation(the final summary of the production plan and growth results) on fish reared by you during the semester will be required. Feeding of fish and daily tank cleaning will be done on the student’s own time during normal weekly business hours. Student laboratory notebooks will be collected and graded by the TA at various intervals.

Grading

ActivityPercentDate

Exam I 20 February 23

Exam II20April 1

Final Exam20 May 13 (12:30-2:30)

Production summary

report/notebooks20May 7

Quizzes/homework10As assigned

Presentation10(week of May 3rd)

90 -100 = A

80 - 89 = B

70 - 79 = C

60 - 69 = D

Offices: Ken Cain – 105D, CNR; David Burbank: rm 109 or 217

Office Hours: Ken Cain: TR 1:30 - 2:20 or by appointment

Jimmy Barron: TBA

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