The Aquaculture department has 42 branches:
1) An Introduction to Fish Resource Sciences
2) Ichthyology
3) Aquatic Invertebrates
4) Marine Botany
5) Principles of Aquaculture
6) Aquaculture Systems
7) Mariculture
8) Integrated Aquaculture
9) Ornamental Fish Production
10) Invertebrate Culture
11) Nutrition of Aquatic Animals
12) Aquatic Larval Feeding
13) Aquatic Physiology
14) Aquatic Biology
15) Aquaculture Hatching and Propagation
16) Conservation Biology
17) Aquatic Birds and Marine Mammals
18) Dangerous and Endangered Marine Species
19) Aquaculture Engineering
20) Microbiology
21) Aquatic and Marine Ecology
22) Behavioral Ecology
23) Fish Diseases
24) Diseases of Aquatic Invertebrates
25) Nutritional and Managemental Disorders
26) Quarantine& Health Care
27) Aquatic Animals Genetics & Breeding
28) Fundamentals of Economics
29) Environmental Economy
30) Economy of Fish Projects
31) Principles of Account
32) Fish Extension & Planning of Extension Programmes
33) Fish Marketing and Commerce
34) An introduction to Statistics
35) Applied Statistics
36) Environmental Extension
37) Management Principles I
38) Management Principles 2
39) Research and Seminar
40) Graduation Project
41) Field Training 1
42) Field Training 2
Branches of research study in Aquaculture Department:
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Research field
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Research points
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1
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Fish Nutrition
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· Use of food and plant waste in feeding fish and shrimp
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· Use of unconventional feed materials for feeding fish and shrimp
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· Use of food additives in feeding fish and shrimp
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· Effect of different levels of nanoparticles on growth performance, blood components and immune response of fish and shrimp
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2
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Fish feed production and composition
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· Developing natural food and raising its nutritional efficiency
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· Production of rotifers and brine shrimp to feed fish larvae
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· Production of unconventional feed from food waste
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· Production of stress-resistant fodder and study of its effect on fish performance
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· Production of fortified feed with food additives to raise the efficiency of fish growth and disease resistance
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3
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Fish farming water quality
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· Raising the efficiency of biological filtration in intensive fish farming in fresh water with the water recycling system
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· Improving water quality by using some natural additives
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· Determine the appropriate salinity range for hatching African catfish eggs
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· Field monitoring of the most important water pollutants and how to overcome them
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· Methods for biological water treatment and reuse
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4
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Fish disease resistance
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· Using natural alternatives to antibiotics to treat bacterial diseases in fish
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· Plant extracts as antimicrobial agents for fish
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· Ecological and behavioral studies on fish
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· Modern techniques to control bacterial pathogens in fish
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· Modern techniques to control fungal pathogens in fish
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· Field monitoring of the most important biological causes of fish mortality
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· Modern techniques to raise the immunity of cultured fish.
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· Modern techniques to control parasitic pathogens of fish
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· Field monitoring of the most important abiotic causes of fish mortality
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