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Course Titles:

Soy in Aquaculture

Course Number: 11900

(.5 CE) .5 Continuing Education Unit offered

Speaker: Dr. Steve Hart

Description: 

The aquaculture industry is the fastest growing form in animal agriculture in the world today and the availability of feed ingredients has become a significant factor in the continued viability of this growth.  The US soybean industry has committed significant resources to the field of aquaculture nutrition in an attempt to meet this growing demand of protein.

 

Enrollment information for this course will be available soon.


Adding Pet Fish to Your Private Practice

Course Number: 12700

(1 CE) 1 Continuing Education Unit offered

Speaker: Dr. Jena Questen

Description: 

The basic information any practitioner can use to utilize the current equipment in the practice, with a few minor low cost additions, to get you started seeing pet fish in your practice.

 

Enrollment information for this course will be available soon.


Non-Lethal Diagnostic Testing

Course Number: 12800

(1 CE) 1 Continuing Education Unit offered

Speaker: Dr. Jena Questen

Description: 

The common samples taken from pet fish and equipment needed. 

 

Enrollment information for this course will be available soon.


Husbandry of Common Fish Species

Course Number: 12900

(1 CE) 1 Continuing Education Unit offered

Speaker: Dr. Jena Questen

Description: 

Overview of the basics of freshwater fish keeping.

 

Enrollment information for this course will be available soon.


Koi Herpes Virus

Course Number: 13000

(1 CE) 1 Continuing Education Unit offered

Speaker: Dr. Jena Questen

Description: 

Overview of the disease and prevention in pond fish.

 

Enrollment information for this course will be available soon.


Global Aquaculture: Where is it Going and Why - Should I Really Be Buying More Seafood?

Course Number: 13900

(1 CE) 1 Continuing Education Unit offered

Speaker: Dr. Chris Weeks

Description: 

Aquaculture remains the fastest growing food commodity in the world and is expected to fulfill and important role in improving food security, raising nutritional standards and alleviating poverty across the globe in the future.  In this session we examine human health aspects associated with seafood, current trends observed in the seafood industry, and assess how human impacts and perceptions towards aquaculture on a global scale effect seafood production potential in the North Central Region US.

 

Enrollment information for this course will be available soon.


An Ounce of Biosecurity... Worth More than a Pound of Cure

Course Number: 13400

(1 CE) 1 Continuing Education Unit offered

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Strasser

Description: 

A look at practical biosecurity measures aquatic clients can put into use to limit the exposure of their fish to infectious disease.  Examples in all size operations from large aquaculture producers to the aquarium hobbyist, and a glimpse at diseases these measures are helping to prevent.

Enrollment information for this course will be available soon.