Aquaculture

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Contact person: Lukáš Kalous, PhD, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, room 37, e-mail: kalous@af.czu.cz, web: http://af.czu.cz/~kalous/

Annotation:

Aquaculture is the fastest growing part of food production in the world, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. Aquaculture, namely fish production, supplies main input of animal proteins for human nutrition in "developing" countries. The course will provide the students with information, which will serve as an essential base for their consequent studies of aquaculture concerning production of various aquatic organisms. The content of the course will be also useful for decision-making regarding food and agriculture policy in developing countries or relevant international institutions. The course is constructed to give students general information regarding problematic of aquaculture.

Information:

Schedule 2014/2015 - please check this webpage for possible changes

The meetings take place in the room A28 in the building of FAPPZ at 19:15 on Wednesday

Students evaluation

PRESENTATIONS:

The presentations will take place on 17.12.2014 only as seminar. Please send me the presentation in ppt or better in pdf to my email (no larger then 4Mb; no more then 10 pages). The presentation should be informative but the style is up to you. Please keep the recommended structure.

Your presentations will be available on this webpage for others.

Aquaculture in: Netherlands; Germany; Poland; Turkey; Finland; Canada; Portugal; Slovakia; Spain

Structure:

1) title; author/authors
2) short information about the country (geography, population, economy, agriculture, fish consumption; etc.)
3) aquaculture information (species in culture, main aquaculture technologies in use, amount of production -in total and devided into         areas/species-,  future perspectives, etc.)
4) examples of the aquaculture farms fom the country (pictures with explanations)
5) information sources (literature, web adresses, including the presented pictures!, etc).
6) agreeing to publish on the website of CULS (this website) for educational purpose.

What are the topics: Aquaculture in your country. If there are more students from one country, they should work together. Students of Czech nationality can choose the country in which they worked or country, in which they plan to work.

DOWNLOADABLE INFORMATION are indicated in the table

SCHEDULE for 2014/2015

• 31.10.2014 - harvesting fish pond. Locality: pond "Jevanský rybník" at fish farm Jevany. See detailed info bellow!

• Fish farm in Jevany is situated close to the dam of Jevanský rybník (pond) in the village Jevany. Almost at the end of the village turn right from the principal road to side road that goes on the dam of the pond. The building is directly under the dam. "Loc: 49°57'55.003"N, 14°48'27.042"E

• How to get there:
  by bus from metrostation Háje (line C -red) to the small bus stop "Jevany", the bus number 382 start at 8:45 timetable
  detail of connection - PDF 
  the bus stop "Jevany" is near to the pond, you need to walk a few hunderts meters to fish farm. You will find the right place, as soon as you will see working fishermen :).
  by car - see the map

• Subject is open when enough students have interest.

• Students are ask to contact Erasmus coordinator Mgr. Marie Kafková regarding study administrative.

Download:

Syllabus of the course (pdf)

Questions for examination (pdf)

Links:

http://www.fao.org/fi/default.asp    FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

http://www.was.org  The World Aquaculture Society

Bonus: