Students will participate in broodstock feeding schedule and management. Control of maturation cycles through photoperiod and temperature will also be covered. Spawning techniques, room design and management, including hands-on experience with hormone injections, implants, egg collection, disinfection, hatching, cleaning, stocking techniques and tank configuration will be covered. The course also covers larval husbandry, nursery and growout techniques, as well as feeding practices and disease prevention and control. Students run a larval rearing trial of marine finfish or shrimp using the University of Miami s Experimental Hatchery facilities.
Students learn system management, stocking densities, feeding schedules and grading procedures.
Disease prevention and control are studied, including identification, prevention and control using prophylactic techniques with chemicals and curative measures with drugs.