ZOOL2015-1 : Biological bases of aquaculture and fisheries science

Study Programmes 2016-2017

WARNING : 2015-2016 version of the course specifications

ZOOL2015-1

Biological bases of aquaculture and fisheries science

Duration :

45h Th, 58h Pr

Number of credits :

Master de spécialisation en gestion des ressources aquatiques et aquaculture		6

Lecturer :

Charles Mélard, Carole Rougeot

Coordinator :

Charles Mélard

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

This course gives through an integrated approach the basis of fish biology related with aquaculture. It is dived in 5 chapters:

- Introduction: aquaculture status

- Reproductive biology: endocrinology, effect on environmental factors on reproductive cycle and on spawning, gamete composition, control of gamete quality, sexual maturation and spawning.

- Genetic: genetics of qualitative and quantitative phenotypes, genetic and environmental sex determinisms, sex control, transgenesis.

- Bioenergetic: metabolism, effect of environmental and biological factors on growth

- Fish stress: endocrinology of stress, physiological response to acute and chronic stressors.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

Through an integrative knowledge of the fish biology, the student has the bases necessary for the comprehension, interpretation and exploitation of the assets in the context of the aquaculture

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Biology and chemistry, cellular biology, animal physiology

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Control of reproduction and artificial spawning of several fish species, larval rearing and weaning, effect of food on the growth, measure of metabolism, genetic markers. Analyzes of scientific articles in connection with the sets of themes approached in the course.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

First four-monthly period, schedule establishes by the secretariat of the Master in aquaculture.

Lectures given at the CEFRA