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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312431 (v.1) Aquaculture Principles 201

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Area: Department of Environment and Agriculture
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 312364 (v.1) Aquatic Systems 101
Syllabus: Culture technology of commercially important marine and freshwater finfish including salmonids, native Australian freshwater fish, carps, tilapia, barramundi, snapper and black bream. Production cycles and management practices. Hypophysation techniques. Principles of aquaculture nutrition and feed formulation. Digestion and absorption of formulated feeds. Feed efficiency and diet quality. Planning, design and construction of a system or device related to aquaculture; for example, a functioning biofilter, a coral culture tank, a fish or crustacean rearing system.
Field of Education: 050100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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