AQUACULTURE AND FISHERIES

Code: PAO13413O

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Environment and Ecology Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

1. Erradicar a pobreza - Acabar com a pobreza em todas as suas formas, em todos os lugares

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.

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

Learning Goals

Provide basic knowledge and skills in the field of aquatic production. Introduction to the main aquaculture production systems, species and types of production, limiting factors and environmental constraints, market for aquaculture products. Provide knowledge and skills for possible studies progression in aquaculture and future professional insertion.
Provide basic knowledge on fisheries, sustainable exploitation of aquatic living resources, and yield enhancement.

Aquaculture in the tropics. Ecology of the aquatic ecosystem. Water quality parameters and environmental impacts. Target species. Production systems and engineering. Nutrition and Feeding. Animal growth and reproduction. Opportunities for aquaculture.

Integrated agro-aquaculture production systems. Aquaponics. Problems and potentialities. Case studies in tropical regions.

Local fishing resources and their exploitation - main species; the importance of sustainable management of natural resources. Local fishing methods and fishing yield; the importance of traditional and small-scale fisheries; fleet, increase of fishing yield. Processing and preservation of fishery products.