ENR 5355 Aquaculture Spring Semester 2017 Time and Place: Lectures: ednesday, riday @ 1:50-2:45 333C Kottman Hall Laboratory: onday @ 9:10-12:10 333C and 120 Kottman Hall Instructor: Dr. Konrad Dabrowski Office: Room 473D, Kottman Hall Office Phone: 614 292 4555 E-mail: dabrowski.1@osu.edu Instructional assistant: ackenzie iller Office: Room 120, Kottman Hall Email: miller.5039@osu.edu TA office hours by appointment. Instructor's Office Hours: 10:00-11:00 or by appointment. Instructor s office hours policy: To ensure my presence during office hours, please schedule appointments during office hours listed above. If you are unable to meet during these hours, you may call, e-mail, or see me after class to schedule an appointment for another time. Description: This course is the overview of physical, biological and economic factors that influence the development of fish culture systems. Current world and US fish production practices will be compared. Emphasis will be given to propagation of recreational fish species and those subjects of conservation efforts. Course Objectives: 1. Gain proficiency with identification of production facilities used in aquaculture worldwide and be able to characterize their operation features and environmental concerns. 2. Acquire general and specialized knowledge of biology, physiology, nutrient requirement, reproduction or diseases of selected North American and worldwide cultured fish species. 3. Gain practical knowledge and understanding of some basic procedures commonly used in aquaculture practices, such as gametes handling, blood sampling, etc.
Required Texts: Stickney, R.R. 1994. Principles of aquaculture. J. iley & Sons, New York Boyd, C.E. 1979. ater Quality in warm water fish ponds. Auburn University, Craftmaster Printers, Inc. The two texts above contain information that you will be tested on and expected to know. Topics are covered in lecture but further detail is provided in the required texts. Recommended texts: You may find the following texts helpful for clarification and further description of topics covered in class. clarney,. 1987. The reshwater Aquaculture Book. Hartley and arks, Inc. Bardach, J. E. et al. 1972. Aquaculture. The arming and Husbandry of reshwater and arine Organisms. iley Interscience, New York. Huet,. 1986. Textbook of fish culture. Breeding and cultivation of fish. ishing News Books Ltd. Piper, R.G. et al. 1983. ish Hatchery anagement. U.S. Dept. of Interior, ish and ildlife Service, ashington Tyther, P. and P. Colow. (Eds.) 1985. ish energetics. New perspectives. Croom Helm, London. Lovell, R.T. 1988. Nutrition and feeding of fish. AVI Book Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. ebster, C.D. and Lim, C.E. 2002. Nutrient requirements and feeding of fish for aquaculture. CABI Publ., Oxon and N.Y. Student Evaluation: Attendance/Participation 10% Team Research Project Individual Assignments 15% idterm Exam (ebruary 29) 15% Article Presentation 5% Team Research Project Presentation (April 25) 15% Team Research Project Report (April 27) 20% Oral inal Exam (April 27-ay 3, TBA) 20% Disabled Students: All students with disabilities who need accommodation should see Dr. Dabrowski privately in his office to make arrangements. Special needs must be discussed and arrangements made well in advance (preferably during the first week of the semester) of when they are required. Special accommodations may be arranged through the OSU Office of Disability Services.
Schedule: eek Day Topic January 9 Introduction to course. Lab: Live feeds in aquaculture hatchery. Brine shrimp (Artemia) and rotifer (Brachionus) biology. January 16 January 23 Aquaculture definition and benefits Current technologies and terminologies. L. King observed holiday- No class. orld and national aquaculture, U.S. aquaculture European and tropical aquaculture Lab: Live feed enrichment followed by individual projects Recreational fish, aquarium fish culture Construction of ponds January 30 Lab: Tilapia biology and culture, followed by individual projects Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of ponds Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of ponds ebruary 6 Th Salmon/trout aquaculture (Norwegian experience), followed by individual projects Organic and inorganic fertilization Not mandatory SENR Seminar How Alaska isheries Support Sustainable Conumer Products Daniel iley, 4:10-5:30pm, Rm 164 Howlett Hall Guest Lecture Dr. R. Oldfield, Case estern Res. Univ. Invasive Cichlid Biology ebruary 13 ebruary 20 ebruary 27 Tanks and raceways, recirculation systems ater quality criteria, thermal limits for species Guest Lecture Timothy Parker, ODNR, ish biologist experience Reproduction in fish Lab: idterm exam followed by individual projects Gynogenesis and genetic manipulation Embryonic development arch 6 Nutrition and feeding Nutrient requirements
arch 13 arch 20 arch 27 April 3 April 10 April 17 Spring break, No classes Spring break, No classes Spring break, No classes Nutritional pathologies Larval fish nutrition icrobiology and probiotics in fish culture Diseases and immunology alleye and Yellow perch culture Salmon and trout culture Bait fish and sport fish culture Aquaculture agriculture integrated systems Lab: Transgenic salmon: biology and approval process Endangered fish, sturgeon, Lost River and Shortnose suckers Economic aspects of aquaculture April 24 The last day of classes: Oral presentation of projects. Questions/answers session for oral final. April 26 Research Project anuscripts due, 11:59pm, Canvas dropbox April 27-ay 3 -T Oral examination - To be scheduled individually.
Laboratory Schedule Teams of 2-3 students (depending on the size of the class) will be formed around one of the proposed research topics listed below for their individual projects. Each project will be directly guided by a responsible graduate student within the aquaculture laboratory. Teams are expected to conduct individual project work during laboratory sessions each onday; however, working with live animals will require students to commit time outside of the designated lab period. The team will submit the report 2 days after the last day of classes and it will contribute 25% to their final grade in the course. Projects proposed: 1. Optimization of hobby cichlid species for aquarists and analyses of public preference for different housing environments. (Graduate mentor: John Grayson). 2. Growth and survival of cichlids in different saline environments (Undergraduate leader: Alayna Simison). 3. Comparison of compensatory growth between bighead carp of different ages (Graduate mentor: Shib Pattadar). 4. ertilization and rearing of Pearl danios utilizing novel rearing method (Graduate mentor: Thomas Delomas). 5. Effect of different formulated feeds on zebrafish growth and fertilization (entor: Dr. Dabrowski). **Please be aware that these projects involve live fish and that project topics are subject to change depending on the availability and readiness of the live fish the project aims to work with.