Aquaculture in the Classroom - A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers
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Aquaculture in the Classroom
A Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers
July 17- 19, 2002 - The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center Roanoke, Virginia

This workshop is specifically designed for middle and high school agriculture and science teachers who wish to use recirculating aquaculture technology as a science-based approach to interdisciplinary studies. The course demonstrates how teachers can integrate fishery biology, chemistry, engineering, horticulture, microbiology, and veterinary medicine into a recirculating aquaculture curriculum. All workshop instructors are recognized experts in their respective scientific disciplines.

             


Through both lecture and hands-on laboratory sessions, participants will learn about:
  • Fish production systems (ponds, flow-through, net pens, and recirculating aquaculture technology) commercially used throughout the world
  • Various components and functions of fresh and salt water recirculating aquaculture systems
  • Integration of hydroponics and recirculating aquaculture systems
  • Interdependence of food science, horticulture and fishery biology in aquaculture
  • Nutrition of various fish (herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores)
  • Characteristics and management of solid and liquid wastes
  • Issues associated with the discharge of wastewaters into public receiving waters
  • Treatment of sick fish
  • Recognizing the early stages of disease
  • Sampling skin and gill tissue
  • Performing a necropsy

      
           
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