Unit Code: TAQ402

Unit Name: Craft and Gear in Aquaculture

Description: This units allows students to learn about ponds, impoundment, design standards and construction,size,small earthen excavated ponds, levee-type ponds constructed side by side, natural impoundment, excavated ,levee, recommended fish pieces, advantages, limitations, water supplies, soil characteristics, typical dam at the drain pipe, emergency spillway, trash rack, riser piper, value, ballast, cut off trench , anti-seep collar, ground surface, core, barrel pipe, elevation, borings cage, feeding ring, flow index, freeboard, impoundment, levee, live-cars, mud line, net pens, paddlewheel, percolation, relift pump, seine, soils, slopes, sock. stratification, topography, watershed, conventional hill ponds, site selection of levee-type, production ponds, site selection of levee-type production ponds, cost of construction, water availability, water sources, soil characteristics, topography, wetlands, draining, flooding utility right of ways, construction of levee-type ponds,leeve width, freeboard and depth, slope of leeve, orientation, site preparation and construction, drains modified canfield outlet or inside swivel drain controls the water level, swivel drain in pond, size of drain,desing assistance, raceways and tanks, small rectangular tanks used for fry an fingerlings,soils,circular tanks, cages and pens. Advantages of cages and pens, disadvantages of cages and pens. Cage construction and palcement,Cage materials (frame,mesh,netting)cage placement, common cage designs and large cages.

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Prerequisite: N/A

Prerequisite Sentence: Student must be enrolled in the programme.

Credit Point: 12

Offered In: Semester 2