Aquaculture Technology

Code: BIO14644M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/162 hours

Scientific Area: Controlo e Processos

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

Definition of the best conditions in live food cultivation systems. Cultivation of ornamental species. Integrated production systems in multitrophic aquaculture and aquaponics. Assessment of the biotechnological potential of aquaculture products.

Sustainable Development Goals

2. Erradicar a fome - Acabar com a fome, alcançar a segurança alimentar e melhoria da nutrição e promover a agricultura sustentável.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

8. Trabalho digno e crescimento económico - Promover o crescimento económico sustentado, inclusivo e sustentável, emprego pleno e produtivo, e trabalho decente para todos.

12. Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

14. Proteger a vida marinha - Conservação e uso sustentável dos oceanos, dos mares, e dos recursos marinhos para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

Learning Goals

Objectives
- To know about the different cultivation systems
- To know how to grow live food
- To know how to adapt the best conditions to cultivation
- To know about the production of different organisms
- To know how to grow live food
- To know about the biotechnological potential of aquaculture products
- To know about forms of integrated aquaculture production
- To know how to select the commercial cultivation techniques of the species that most contribute to national and international production
- To know about the well-being and health of farmed animals, as well as the production efficiency and quality of the originating products

Skills
- Ability to integrate research teams for aquaculture production studies
- Ability to maintain and ensure the operation of live food production facilities

1. Cultivation types and characteristics of freshwater and marine aquaculture systems
2. Characterization and categories of aquaculture production systems
3. Auxiliary cultivation systems: Introduction to the problem of rearing organism larvae. Cultivation of phytoplankton, rotifers and brine shrimp. Use of live food in aquaculture
4. Cultivation systems of tropical freshwater species: cyprinid, characids, and cichlids fishes
5. Cultivation systems for saltwater/brackish water species in temperate zones
6. Macroalgae production systems and biotechnological potential
7. Integrated aquaculture systems: multitrophic aquaculture, permaculture in aquaculture and aquaponics

Lab: Live food cultivation systems: growth and observation studies; Analysis of the quality of cultivation in the Lab: welfare and health of cultivated animals and productive efficiency of sensitive species and the quality of products originated in aquariums

Teaching Methods

TP classes take place in face-to-face and in a b-learning regime where student-centered pedagogical methodologies are used through a brief exposition of theoretical concepts interspersed with active learning methodologies. In PL classes, the concepts learned in theoretical classes will be applied in practical terms so that students are exposed to real scenarios on a small scale; The analysis of the experimental data will be carried out autonomously and under supervision. Short tutorial guidance work will be carried out. It is also planned to organize seminars and workshops to share experiences of cultivation systems with invited speakers.

Assessment

The assessment of the theoretical-practical component is carried out by carrying out a work and the laboratory component through the delivery of a report and/or treatment of experimental results.
The final grade is calculated as follows:
CF = 0,6xNTP+0,4xNPL; CF: Final mark; NTP and NPL must be higher than 9.5.