From: Megan Davis <MDavis@HBOI.edu>
To: 'aqua-l@killick.ifmt.nf.ca' <aqua-l@killick.ifmt.nf.ca>

ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN MARINE FINFISH AQUACULTURE
January 4-15, 1999, Ft. Pierce, Florida, USA

The Aquaculture Center for Training, Education and Demonstration located at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc. Ft. Pierce, Florida, USA is offering Advanced Techniques in Marine Finfish Aquaculture.

Instructor: Daniel Benetti.
Ph.D. enrollment is limited to 12 participants. This 2-week intensive finfish aquaculture course covers the principles and practices of maturation, spawning, larval rearing, nursery and grow-out techniques of several commercially important coastal, reef, pelagic, demersal and bait fish species. Field trips to fishing locations will provide the participants with hands-on experience with broodstock capture, transportation, handling and spawning techniques. This winter course will focus on flounder (Paralichthys sp.). Species such a grouper, snappers, red drum and sea trout may also be used to demonstrate culture techniques.
Other topics include production of live feeds, larval husbandry, fish
hatchery management, fundamentals of nutrition, bioenergetics, grow-out methods, disease prevention and control, and environmental assessment.

For more information and to register for the course, contact:

Dr. Megan Davis-Hodgkins

Program Manager

Aquaculture Center for Training, Education and Demonstration

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc.5600 US 1 North

Ft. Pierce, Florida 34946 USA

Tel: 561-465-2400, 1-800-333-4264 (ext. 416)

Fax: 561-466-6590

Email: mdavis@hboi.edu
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