Download HIGHER EDUCATION IN AQUACULTURE

Information on the national
higher education system
• The basic structure of the Turkish National
Education system consists of mainly four
steps as pre-school education, primary
education, secondary education and
higher education.
• Higher education is defined as all post-
secondary programs with a duration of at
least two years. The system consists of
universities (state and foundation) and
non-university institutions of higher
education (police and military academies
and colleges)..
• Each university consists of faculties and
four-year schools, offering bachelor's level
programs, the latter with a vocational
emphasis, and two year vocational schools
offering pre-bachelor's (associate's) level
programs of a strictly vocational nature.
• Graduate-level programs consists of
master's and doctoral programs,
coordinated by graduate schools.
• Access to doctoral programs requires a
master degree. Doctoral programs have a
duration of minimum four years which
consists of completion of courses, passing
doctoral qualifying examination, and
preparing and defending a doctoral thesis.
Undergraduate education in
aquaculture and fisheries
• In Turkey, aquaculture education run
within different structures based on
universities:
• 1.Faculties of Fisheries and Aquaculture
• 2.Departments of Fisheries and
Aquaculture in the Faculties of Agriculture
• 3.Faculties of Marine Sciences
• At Ankara University and other three
public universities undergraduate courses
are provided within the general higher
education of agricultural engineers (4
years in length at universities); at the end
of education students get a diploma with a
certification in it about their specialization.
• The Department of Fisheries and
Aquaculture in Agricultural Faculty of
Ankara University offers a degree in
Agricultural Engineering with aquaculture
specialisation, and follows a partly
different organisational structure from the
other Faculties of Fisheries & Aquaculture.
• In Faculties of Fisheries and Aquaculture
at various universities ‘aquacultural
engineer’ title is given.
• Fisheries and Aquaculture courses both in
Departmental structure and faculty
organisation have a general framework,
with some specialised elements: Fisheries
Biology, Ichthyology, Fish Diseases, Water
Quality as well as Water Pollution,
Aquaculture of Freshwater fishes, Marine
fishes and Shellfish, Fishing Technology,
Fisheries Management, Limnologia as well
as oceanographia.
Undergraduate courses
FISH ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
SHELLFISH AND CULTURE TECHNIQUES
PLANKTON AND CULTURE TECHNIQUES
NET MATERIAL AND NETTING TECHNIQUES
AQUARIUM FISH AND BREEDING
TECHNIQUES
FISH BIOLOGY
• WATER QUALITY CRITERIA IN
AQUACULTURE
• FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
• LIMNOLOGY
• OCEANOGRAPHY
• WATER POLLUTION AND CONTROL
• FISH DISEASES
• MARINE FISH AND CULTURE
TECHNIQUES
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FRESHWATER FISH AND CULTURE TECHNIQUES
FISHING TECHNIQUES
FISH BREEDING
AQUATIC PLANTS AND CULTURE TECHNIQUES
POPULATION DYNAMICS
WATER TOXICOLOGY
FISHERIES LAW AND REGULATIONS
AQUACULTURE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
• AQUACULTURE PROJECTS
• GRADUATION THESIS
• PRACTICAL WORK (a total of 45 days, in fish farms,
labs. etc)
The course of Fish Diseases
• Course and laboratory work is given in 4 th year and the last
semester (8th)
• Two hours theorotical+two hours lab./a week (a total of fourteen
weeks)
• 4 ECTS
• Compulsory laboratory work has to be achieved before taking
written final exam
Contents of Fish Diseases Courses
• Basic aspects of fish physiology
• Basic aspects of fish immunology
• Disease Sypmtoms
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Behavioural sypmtoms of disease
- General external visual signs
- Internal signs of disease
• 2. Infectious Diseases (Virus,Bacteria and
Fungi)
• - Viral pathogens and diseases
• - Bacterial pathogens and diseases
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Gram positive bacteria caused
diseases
Streptococcus spp.
Renibacterium salmoninarum
diseases
invaderis
- Fungal pathogens and
Aphanomyces invadans
Saprolegnia parasitica, S. dicline, S.
Ichthyosporidium hoferi
Branchiomyces sanguinis, B. demigrans
• 3. Parasitic Diseases
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- Protozoonal diseases
• Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, Ichthyobodo
necatrix,Hexamita spp., Chilodonella cyprini, Trichodina
spp., Epistylis spp., other species.
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- Monogenean and Digenean flukes
• Gyrodactylus spp., Dactylogyrus spp. – Sanguinicola
inermis, Diplostomum spp. Posthodiplostomum spp.
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- Tapeworms (Cestoda)
• Bothriocephalus acheliognathi, Ligula intestinalis,
Diphyllobothrium latum, Proteocephalus spp.
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- Nematodes
• Cammallanus spp., Raphidascaris acus, Anisakis spp.,
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Eustrongyloides spp., Philometra abdominalis.
- Acanthocephalans
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Parasitic Crustaceans
Argulus spp., Lernaea spp., Ergasilus
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Non-infectious diseases
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• . Environmental Diseases
• - Water quality (Temperature, Dissolved gases,
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pH, Nitrogenous wastes and other pollutanst
Nutritionally Induced Diseases
• - Nutrition related diseases
• Diseases of Eggs and Fry
• Management of Fish Health
• Treatment and Prophyllacis