To provide students with detailed knowledge of marine aquaculture
including species and volumes cultured worldwide. The course will
enable students to describe site selection criteria and become
familiar with the individual components of land and sea based
marine aquaculture systems for production of algae, shellfish and
fish. The student will learn to characterize physical components of
waves, currents and wind in open and sheltered water systems and to
calculate the forces affecting sea based systems. The student will
learn to dimension major elements of an aquaculture production
system and be able to scale the elements to outline a full
production system. The student will become familiar with basic
management systems to control and predict production output.
Finally, the student will learn about the potential environmental
impacts from farming operations.
Læringsmål:
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
Outline the status of world marine aquaculture with respect to
region, species and production quantity.
Characterize central aspects of site selection of land based as
well as sea based aquaculture systems.
Explain the major components of offshore production systems for
fish, shellfish and algae.
Describe production methodologies used in marine hatcheries and
land based production systems for fish.
Characterize the forces of waves, currents and wind in
sheltered and open water systems and estimate forces on structures
in the water including mooring systems.
Outline a production management plan, estimating production
flow and basic in and outputs.
Describe how potential environmental impacts can be predicted
from the different farm systems and how to possibly ameliorate
them.
Predict what environmental threats are relevant to the
different farm systems including mammals, fish and hazard algal
blooms
Kursusindhold:
Presentation of global marine aquaculture production, including
volume and species in a historic perspective. Criterias behind site
selection of land and sea based production systems are explained.
Hatcheries for fish and shellfish are described with focus on
technology used and operational parameters. Flow through and
recirculation systems for land based marine production systems are
analysed including systems for production of micro and macro algae.
The potential of sea based systems is outlined and sea based
systems for production of macro algae, shellfish and fish are
explained. The physical forces impacting sea based system will be
characterized and the methods for dimensioning the systems and
moorings accordingly will be taught. Potential environmental
impacts are assessed and described quantitatively.
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den studerende mulighed for at lave eller forberede et projekt som
kan deltage i DTUs studenterkonference om bæredygtighed,
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