Information Package / Course Catalogue
Aquaculture Breeding and Health
Course Code: LVS156
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

The main objective of the course is to make students understand the principles of fish diseases and aquaculture.

Course Content

Sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp brood rearing techniques in all phases of the stage and the lower portion includes the use of structural elements. Also, biotic agents caused diseases on fish, the importance and the definition of fish diseases, their contamination routes, the diagnoses, sampling, vaccinations.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Okan ERTOSLUK
Learning Outcomes
1.Ability to make a sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp culture
2.Ability to make a sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp growing
3.To learn the contamination ways and prevention measures.
4.To differentiate the symptoms of diseases in cultured fish.
5.To choice and apply the drugs used on fish diseases.
Recommended or Required Reading
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Ability to select and care of sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp breeders.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Ability to application of spawning technique and taken healthy egg from the sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp broodstocks, and incubation methods.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Ability to care of sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp larviculture.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Ability to make a transportation of sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp from hatchery and adaptation workings (techniques).
Week 5 - Theoretical
Ability to set up sea-cages (sea bream, sea bass, trout and carp).
Week 6 - Theoretical
Ability to make a cage culture of sea bream and sea bass.
Week 7 - Theoretical
Ability to make a pool and cage culture of trout and carp.
Week 8 - Theoretical
Make provision against illness caused by food
Week 9 - Theoretical
Make provision against illness caused by food
Week 10 - Theoretical
Quarantine applications
Week 11 - Theoretical
Morphological changes in fish disease
Week 12 - Theoretical
The sampling and deliver to laboratory for diagnose
Week 13 - Theoretical
Vaccine and vaccination methods
Week 14 - Theoretical
Methods of treatment and administration of drugs in fish diseases
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Individual Work142028
Midterm Examination19110
Final Examination112113
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)79
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026