Marine Aquaculture and Technologies
Objectives
At the end of the course, students will have acquired knowledge, skills and competences that will allow them to:
- Know the advantages and benefits of Marine Aquaculture for the sustainable development;
- Understand the need of assess the impacts of aquaculture farming to the ecosystem and of the product quality for human health;
- Know the different production regimes in marine aquaculture and the different types of production systems;
- Identify the critical biological aspects related to the production of different marine species;
- Be able to set up a fish farm on land, at sea and a fish maternity;
- Intervene in marine aquaculture projects in aspects related with the construction, implementation, development and monitoring phases;
- Develop new technologies, methods and predictive tools for better HSE and fish welfare, reduction of cost and contribute to sustainable production.
General characterization
Code
12885
Credits
3.0
Responsible teacher
Marta Susana Silvestre Gouveia Martins
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 30
Teaching language
Inglês
Prerequisites
n/a
Bibliography
- Sunde, L.M., Schellewald, C., Skøien, K.R., Alver, M.O., Berckmans, D., “Precision fish farming: A new framework to improve production in aquaculture, Biosystems Engineering”, 2018.
- H. V. Bjelland et al., "Exposed Aquaculture in Norway," OCEANS 2015 - MTS/IEEE Washington, Washington, DC, 2015, pp.1-10.
- Su B., Kelasidi, E., Frank, K., Haugen, J., Føre, M., Pedersen, M.O., An integrated approach for monitoring structural deformation of aquaculture net cages. Ocean Engineering, 2021
Teaching method
The methodology will include theoretical-practical (TP) classes, through the exposition of theoretical contents, the presentation and interactive discussion of case studies and the application of mathematic calculations for infrastructure planning. The methodology includes also videos with practical demonstrations. Study visits to EPPO facilities in Olhão and aquaculture companies will also be contemplated.
Evaluation method
One theoretical exame
Subject matter
- Introduction to aquaculture: advantages and benefits for sustainability; importance at national and international levels;
- Aquaculture production regimes: the extensive, semi-intensive and extensive;
- Selection of species: biological aspects, reproduction, farming, nutrition, feed, growth and production costs;
- Supporting farming: methodologies for microalgae, zooplankton and mollusks production;
- Aquaculture facilities: fundaments, water-based, land-based, recycling systems and integrated farming systems;
- Adaptation and development of new technologies, advanced methods and the predict tools for increase objectivity, efficiency and level of automation in aquaculture domain