AQ3003:03
Aquaculture: Propagation
Townsville
Prerequisites: Six biology subjects including AQ2001
24 lectures, 21 hours practicals, field work and seminars. First semester.
Staff: Dr P Southgate.
This subject discusses husbandry of aquaculture broodstock, larval and juvenile culture techniques and genetic aspects of aquaculture relevant to stock improvement. Topics include broodstock management and nutrition, conditioning and spawning induction, egg and larval quality, larval and juvenile rearing (molluscs, crustaceans and finfish), selective breeding, chromosome manipulation, sex reversal, genetic implications of aquaculture.
Learning Objectives:
- an understanding of the reproductive cycles of cultured aquatic animals and the factors controlling them;
- detailed knowledge of the methods used for broodstock management, spawning induction and larval rearing of culture organisms;
- an understanding of genetic aspects of stock improvement, such as selective breeding, sex manipulation, chromosome manipulation and hybridisation;
- an understanding of current problems and future research directions for aquaculture propagation and stock improvement.
Assessment by a two-hour final examination (50%); practical reports and seminar presentation (50%).