This unit will familiarise students with aquaculture general principles and practices within an environmental context. Content will address: aquaculture history and drivers, reasons for performing, global and local production trends, human consumption patterns, inter-dependence with wild fisheries, inter-relationship between species biology, knowledge base and culture system complexity, an overview of various impacts on the environment (both positive and negative) using case studies and hypothetical scenarios, biosecurity concepts, constraints to development, extensive-intensive production theory, integrated systems and the concept of a sustainable production system. -- Course Website
Instructor: P Jones
Prerequisites: Nil
