This course provides students with an understanding of how animals adapt physiologically to environmental challenges and addresses the basic physical and chemical principles that underlie physiological processes. Several biological systems are considered, including respiratory, circulatory, digestive and metabolic, thermoregulatory, osmoregulatory, renal, nervous, musculoskeletal, hormonal, sensory and reproduction.
This course discusses the common practices in aquaculture, important factors in choosing sites and species for aquaculture, water requirement and water quality for fish culture, seed production and larval rearing, fish nutrition, fish health and diseases, post-harvest technology and marketing.