research and education center in aquaculture
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Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Aquaculture (CEFRA) Aquaculture Research and Education Center. Research and Education Center in Aquaculture. Applied Research. Fundamental Research. Education. Master. Technical formation. Continental Aquaculture. Experimental Biology. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Aquaculture (CEFRA)Aquaculture Research and Education Center
Research and Education Center in Aquaculture
EducationApplied
Research Fundamental
Research
Master inAquaculture
Technical formation
Ph.D
Master
Tropical aquaculture
Temperate Aquaculture
Experimental Biology
Genetic / physiology
ContinentalAquaculture
Cooperation
Facilities
• Near a Nuclear Power PlantNear a Nuclear Power Plant
• 2 greenhouses2 greenhouses
•3 recircultating aquaculture 3 recircultating aquaculture systems and 3 flow through systems and 3 flow through systemssystems
• Larval rearing facilitiesLarval rearing facilities
• Outdoor tanksOutdoor tanks
• LaboratoriesLaboratories
• Ponds Ponds
Water supply
Water from river Meuse 4 to 25°C Ground water
• 17°C
Warm water from the nuclear power plant
• 20 to 40°C
Education
Inter-University master in aquaculture– 1 year– 16 students /year– 12 grant holder / year from Belgian cooperation – Systematic, ecology, Aquaculture biological basis,
pathology, nutrition, genetic, biostatistic, production system, aquatic rearing technology, aquariology, product quality, economical and legislative aspects
– Master’s thesis Ph.D
– 1 to 2 Ph.D / year– Genetic, reproductive and growth physiology, sex
determination, … Technical
– 3 month work experience– Rearing technology and rearing systems
Applied Research
Tropical AquacultureTropical Aquaculture– Tilapias, Clarias,
Characidae, grass carp– Production– Genetical and growth
improvement– Rearing technology– Rearing system– Biological control
Applied Research
Temperate aquaculture– Percid (perch and sander)
• Growth improvement• Domestication• Monosex families production• Improvement of production
– Cyprinidae (koï carp)• Improvement of larval rearing• Systemic approach against
KHV
– Rearing system : • flow through and
recirculating aquaculture systems
Applied Research Cooperation
– Fish farming
– Aquatic weed control in Senegal (Grass carp)
Fundamental research
Experimental biologyExperimental biology– Reproduction and gametes quality– Effect of environmental and biotic factors on growth
GeneticGenetic– Growth improvement– Sex determinism– Relation genome - reproductive biology - growth– Relation strain - growth