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ACTED AQUACULTURE WORKSHOPS AND COURSES
Upcoming Aquaculture Center for Training, Education and Demonstration Workshops and Courses sponsored by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Ft. Pierce, Florida, USA
Hard Clam Aquaculture August 25-29, 1997
$795
This popular 5-day course is for participants interested in the hard clam aquaculture business or in starting a clam farm. The course
includes land-based and in-water nursery system design and operation, grow out strategies, sieving, sorting, lease siting and application, general permitting, shellfish regulations, controlling predators, clam economics, marketing and maintaining records.
Aquaculture Business Planning and Management Sept. 4-6, 1997
$295
Participants will receive assistance in developing an appropriate
operational business plan or a business prospectus to attract lenders
and investors. Topics include information on the current industry and
its products, market analysis and strategies, consumers, trends,
competition and pricing. The workshop will cover the elements of an
operating plan, including your company's location, facilities, culture
methods, labor and management, as well as an operating budget with fixed costs, variable costs and cash flow. The workshop will explore critical risks and problems in an aquaculture business.
Opportunities in Aquaculture Sept. 11-13, and Dec. 5-7, 1997
$295
Our 2 1/2 day introductory workshop provides participants with the
basic knowledge for getting started in aquaculture. This mainstay
workshop will help you find out if you want to be in aquaculture and, if so, what you need to do to get going. Site, species, and system
selections, regulations, marketing, finances, and business planning are
covered. Activities with clam, shrimp and fish culture techniques are
included.
Microalgae and Live Food Culture Sept. 22-26, 1997
$795
A 5-day course designed to demonstrate techniques for culturing
live feeds for various stages of clam, shrimp, and fish production.
Hands-on training for maintaining microalgae stocks through large-scale (4000 liters) cultures, aseptic techniques, density measurements, system design, isolation methods, and media formulations. Training will include maintaining cultures of rotifers and Artemia in simple systems for feeding fish fry and penaeid post-larvae.
Status and Prospects of Spiny Lobster Culture October 3-4, 1997
$245
Participants will learn of the latest research and development of
spiny lobster aquaculture including post harvest impoundment to increase weight and value, holding of lobsters to improve market value, shipping of live lobsters, feasibility of raising lobsters from juveniles, and appropriate culture systems. Potential strategies for ecological enterprises will be presented.
Water Quality October 16-18, 1997
$295
This workshop focuses on the basics of water quality in
aquaculture. Participants collect, analyze, and interpret water samples and data from aquaculture systems for a number of parameters. Exposure to the latest industry equipment including computer monitoring systems will allow students to discuss the management of an aquaculture production system.
Practical Techniques in Marine Fish Culture Nov. 2-7, 1997
$795
This 5-day course provides hands-on instruction for the culture of commercially important food fish, including system maintenance, feeding, water quality, fish handling, record keeping and use of data to project crop weights and harvest schedules. Topics also include species selection, system design, recirculating principles, permitting, and marketing.
Recirculation Systems: Principles, Engineering, Components, Construction and Operation Nov. 14-19, 1997
$795
This 6-day course covers all aspects of recirculating systems and
components presently used in the U.S. Topics include solids removal
systems, microfiltration, microscreens, biofiltration (sand filters,
bead filters, fluidized bed filters, biodiscs), aeration systems (ozone,
u-tube, low head, liquid air, airlifts, and cascade aerators), and other
innovative components used in recirculating systems. System design,
carrying capacity, flow requirements, nitrification principles, and
water quality will also be covered.
Culture of Penaeus vannamei Dec. 8-12, 1997
$795
This 5-day course provides hands-on instruction in grow out
production of white shrimp juveniles in salt or freshwater. System
design and operation, stocking, feeding, water quality, record keeping, harvesting, marketing, and regulations are covered. To assist in site selection, the course includes a bioassay and water quality test of your water at a reduced fee.
Advanced Techniques in Marine Finfish Aquaculture Jan. 12-24, 1998
$2,195
This 14-day course is offered in July and January each year. The
course covers maturation, spawning and larval rearing of several
commercially important coastal, reef, pelagic and demersal fish species, such as flounder, red drum, sea trout, snook, snapper, grouper, yellowtail, mahimahi, and bait fish. The course includes practical experience in broodstock capture, handling, acclimation and feeding. Other topics include production of live feeds, larval husbandry, fish hatchery management, fundamentals of nutrition, bioenergetics, grow out methods, and disease prevention and control.
If you are interested in more information on our ACTED workshops and courses or customized long-term courses please contact: Megan
Davis-Hodgkins or Julie Vann at email:
ACTED@HBOI.EDU
Megan Davis-Hodgkins
Program Manager
Aquaculture Center for Training, Education and Demonstration
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
5600 US 1 North
Ft. Pierce, Florida 34946 USA
Tel: 1-561-466-4984
FAX: 1-561-466-6590
E-mail: mdavis@hboi.edu
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