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FW5455 Sustainable Aquaculture

Spring 2007, 3 credits

How can we make the world’s fastest growing food sector environmentally and socially responsible?

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• Understand what aquaculture is and how and why it relates to your life and responsibilities as a citizen of your state, country and our spectacular blue planet.
• Get you excited about things you can do in the future to encourage sustainable aquaculture to become the norm from Minnesota to Sumatra!

Objectives

• Learn about the rich history and present-day diversity of aquaculture.
• Understand benefits and problems of aquaculture and how they vary case-by-case.
• Learn integrated ways of framing and analyzing 'sustainability', with specific application to aquaculture.
• Gain basic understanding of the technology used to grow aquatic organisms in aquaculture.
• Pursue personal interest in aquaculture via your choice of topics for various assignments.
• Identify and explore realistic steps that could help shift aquaculture worldwide to approaches that will benefit affected peoples and ecosystems.