Course detail

LZT5855 - Special Problems in Scientific Experimentation for Fish Culture


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
15
0
4
2 weeks
60 hours

Instructor
Brunno da Silva Cerozi
Jose Eurico Possebon Cyrino

Objective
Aquaculture is a multidisciplinary animal science that requires professionals in the field to have a diversified knowledge of techniques and procedures for fish production. The evolution of production systems and the specificity of interactions with the aquatic environment and the heterothermal characteristic of aquatic animals requires that the scientific experimentation in aquaculture uses experimental design techniques and specialized data analysis.

Content
Carrying capacity of fish production systems. Basic principles of experimental design; simulation as an investigation tool; use of completely randomized design techniques, incomplete randomized blocks and incomplete randomized blocks in experimentation in aquatic biology and aquaculture; experimental design in subdivided plots; repeated measures; cross-designs; factorial designs, use of statistical analysis softwares and process simulation.

Bibliography
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Hasted. 1996. Statistical Methods in Agriculture and Experimental Biology. 2ed. Chapman Hall, Inc., London, England.
Mendes, P.P. 1999. Estatística Apliacda à Aqüicultura. Editora Bagaço, Recife, PE.
McLarney, W. 1998. Freshwater Aquaculture. Hartley & Marks Publishers, Inc., Point Roberts, WA, USA.
Nash, C. E. and A. J. Novotny. 1995. Production of Aquatic Animals- fishes. World Animal Science C8- Production-system approach. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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Shell, E.W. 1983. Fish Farming Research. Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, AL, USA.
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Journals: Aquaculture; Aquaculture Nutrition; Aquaculture and Fisheries Management; Aquacultural Engineering; Aquacultural Research; Biometry; Journal of the Animal Statistical Association; Journal of The World Aquaculture Society; The North American Journal of Aquaculture.