Care and use of fishes as experimental animals. Requires hip boots or waders and rain gear. Controlled spawning, cultivation, harvesting, processing, and marketing of marine and estuarine algae, invertebrates, and fishes. How laws and regulations, engineering, and economics affect culture on a worldwide basis. Culture of food items used in rearing marine and estuarine species.
Lab requires after-hours time at marine lab.
Group tour of important areas and installations in fisheries. One week during vacation period. Environmental influences on life history, behavior, growth, and survival of freshwater and anadromous fishes. Some weekend and after-hours field trips required. Environmental influences on life history, behavior, growth, and survival of marine and anadromous fishes.