AQ3003 - Aquaculture: Propagation

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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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).

Learning Outcomes

• an understanding of current problems and future research directions for aquaculture propagation and stock improvement;
• an understanding of genetic aspects of stock improvement, such as selective breeding, sex manipulation, chromosome manipulation and hybridisation;
• 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.

Prerequisites:	Six biology subjects including AQ2001
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	AQ5003

Availabilities
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Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coordinator:	jc150535
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Chaoshu Zeng, jc150535, zlpcs.
Contact hours:	24 hours 21 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).

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