WETS1042 Aquaculture (6 cr)

Lectures, practical exercises, visits to fish farms, report, seminar. The student must be able to use Microsoft Excel.

After completing this course, 

• The student understands the special characteristics, potential, possibilities, limitations and threats of aquaculture in Finland. 
• The student can perform the basic tasks in a fish farm. 
• The student can calculate the most common production parameters such as growth, and water and feed requirements of farmed fishes. 
• The student understands the principles of recirculating aquaculture systems and possibilities to utilization of effluent nutrients

Basic command on Excel required.