AQX110 Aqualab
Credits (ECTS):10
Course responsible:Turid Mørkøre
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
Limits of class size:30
Course frequency:Annually
Nominal workload:250 hours
Teaching and exam period:Autumn
About this course
You will get a practical overview of key parameters in fish farming.The teaching will predominately take place in our modern Recycling Aquaculture System facility (RAS Fishlab). You will get an introduction to fish feed evaluation in our small-scale feed factory ("Fôrtek").
Learning outcome
Knowledge
Students have basic knowledge of
- Anatomy and physiology and the salmon's life cycle
- Modern fish feed, feed evaluation
- Properties of RAS facilities, water quality
- Behavior in salmonids
- Fish experiments and calculation of production parameters
Skills
- Dissect fish and calculate basic biometric properties
- Measure important indicators for water quality in fish farming
- Carry out a basic evaluation of fish feed
- Calculate basic production parameters in fish farming
- Assess behavioral traits in salmonids
General competences
- Basic knowledge of practical conditions in Norwegian fish farming as a useful basis for the theoretical specialization subjects that come later in the study
- Lab, lectures, discussions, writing lab-reports
- Canvas, supervision
- Special requirements in Science
- Basic knowledge in biology
Samlet vurdering
- 3 labrapporter (teller 1/3 hver)
Karakterregel: Bestått/ikke bestått
Assignment Grading: Passed / Not Passed Assignment Grading: Passed / Not Passed Assignment Grading: Passed / Not Passed- Laboratory activities and lab-reports
Lab activities
2x2 hours of lectures in each of the three topics; 1) Feeding study, evaluating production parameters, 2) Feed evaluation, 4) Fish behavior
- Bachelor students, aquaculture (B-AKVA)
- GSK