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Aquaculture. Teacher Edition. INSTTJTON Mid-America Vocational Curriculum Consortium, Stillwater, Okla DOCUMENT RESUME ED 327 657 CE 056 667 AUTHOR Walker, Susan S. TITLE Aquaculture. Teacher Edition. INSTTJTON Mid-America Vocational Curriculum Consortium, Stillwater, Okla. PUB DATE 90 NOTE 876p. AVAILABLr FROMMid-America 7ocational Curriculum Consortium, 1500 West Seventh Avenue, Stillwater, OK 74074 (order no. CN601501: $38.50). PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Use Guides (For Teachers) (052) EDRS PRICE MF06 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Agricultural Production; Behavioral Objectives; Business Administration; *Equipment; *Fisheries; Learning Activities; Lesson Plans; Marine Biology; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education; Teaching Methods; Test Items; Units of Study; *Water Quality IDENTIFIERS *Aquaculture ABSTRACT This color-coded guide was developed to assist teachers in helping interested students plan, build, stock, and run aquaculture facilities of varied sizes. The guide contains 15 instructional units, each of which includes some or all of the following basic components: objective sheet, suggested activities for the teacher, instructor supplements, transparency masters, information sheet, assignment sheets, assignment sheet answers, job sheets, practical tests, written test, and answers to written test. Units cover the following topics: introduction to aquaculture; the aquatic environment; fundamental fish biology; marketing; site selection; facility design and layout; water quality management; fish health management; commercial catfish production; commercial trout production; commercial baitfish production; commercial crayfish production; other commercial species; harvesting and hauling; and business management. All of the units focus on measurable and observable learning outcomes. They are designed for use in more than one lesson or class period of instruction. (KC) *******x*******X******************************X************************ Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. s****************ssicssicssssssssicssicssicssicssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 414. "okairt Amon 4,4,4:1s 0,4 4 '44 4.4 4 "" ,, ` 4'4 41 (4- -'''".(44 1; A !.,tlc,,t't ',:!': ','' tnottitttA-.,.., . 24.4,t North Dakota South Dakota 3 AQUACULTURE Written by Susan S. Walker Edited by Dan Fulkerson Developed by - The Mid-America Vocational Curriculum Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors Ann Masters, Nebraska, Chairman Sylvia Clark, Texas, Vice-Chairman Donna Brookhart, Colorado, Parliamentarian Bruce Simpson, Arkansas Janet Huss, Iowa Carol Fagan, Kansas David Poston, Louisiana Harley Schlichting, Missouri Ron Mehrer, North Dakota Ann Benson, Oklahoma Larry Nelson, South Dakota Jim Steward, Executive Director 90-007289 4 CN601501 el ©1990 by the Mid-America Vocational Curriculum Consortium, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of American by the Oklahoma State Department of Vocational-Technical Education Stillwater, OK 74074 Mid-America Vocational Curriculum Consortium, Inc. 1500 West Seventh Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074-4364 o 5 ii \ 1 AQUACULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS Unit I: Introduction to Aquaculture 1 Unit II: The Aquatic Environment 39 Unit III: Fundamental Fish Biology 109 Unit IV: Marketing 157 Unit V: Site Selection 199 Unit VI: Facility Design and Layout 241 Unit VII: Water Quality Management 323 Unit VIII: Fish Health Management 411 Unit IX: Commercial Catfish Production 513 Unit X: Commercial Trout Production 581 Unit XI: Commercial Baitfish Production 635 Unit XII: Commercial Crayfish Production 703 Unit XIII: Other Commercial Species 747 Unit XIV: Harvesting and Hauling 781 Unit XV: Business Management 861 iii6 FOREWORD Because American agriculture is increasingly subjectto unstable markets and inroads from foreign competition, alternatives to agricultureare emerging to help the American farmer find new products and markets.Aquaculture is one of the exciting alternatives that promises economic rewards to those who take the timeto plan and develop a fish farm or any other aquaculture project properly.That's what MAVCC's Aquaculture hasas an ultimate objective:to help interested students plan, build, stock andrun aquaculture facilitiesof variedsizes. Aquaculture projects require planning andmanagement comparable to any other commercial endeavor. Much of thematerial in our text addresses the down-to-earth activities of selectinga site, evaluating soil types, selecting equipment, planning a facility, and managing water qualityto promote good health and growth. Aquaculture is a good-sized text, almost bigger thana bread basket, but with the bigness comes a comprehensive text from which instructors and studentsmay select materials that can be put to work locally. As is typical with MAVCC's competency-based format,Aquaculture is chock full of hands- on assignment and job sheets that explain to students how toget things done. We think you'll enjoy the textwe feel thateveryone will profit from it. Ann Masters, Chairman Jim Steward Board of Directors Executive Director Mid-Amefica Vocational Mid-America Vocatiorrl Curriculum Consortium Curriculum Consortium v 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Resource Committee which planned and approved materials for Aquaculturewas professional in every sense of the word.Some committee members farm fish; other committee members are involved in the teaching and experimentationthat helps others farm fish more profitably.Their collective knowledge is evident in each unit of the text. To the Resource Committee goes a thank you toevery member: Bill Binnian,President/General Manager, Mount Blanca Game Bird and Trout, Inc., Blanca, Colorado. Glen Gebhart, Langston University Agricultui al Research and ExtensionDepartment, Langston, University, Langston, Oklahoma. Jim Gleim, Hatchery Biologist, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission,North Platte Hatchery, North Platte, Nebraska. D. Leroy Gray, Extension Fisheries Specialist, Universityof Arkansas Co-op Extension Service, Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Gary Jensen, Aquaculture Specialist, Louisiana Cooperative ExtensionService, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge,Louisiana. Jim Kahrs, Owner/Operator, Osage Catfishery, Osage Beach, Missouri. Dr. Wallace Klussman, Professor, Department of Wildlife andFishery Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. It would be impossible to name everyone whose works inother books and published items have contributed significantly to MAVCC's effort to producea comprehensive text.But it's worth a try. A thank you to John Guidice, D. Leroy Gray, and J. Mayo Martinfor their Manual for Bait Fish Culture in the South, a joint publication of the Universityof Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Another valuable reference is Jasper S. Lee's Catfish Farming. A ReferenceUnit, published by Mississippi State University, and we thank all associatedwith that publication'. Catfish AqLiaculture: A Decision-Making Guidebookwas published by the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service at the Louisiana State UniversityAgricultural Center, and to those who helped with that project, another thankyou for providing a valuable resource. We thank Claude E. Boyd and Frank Lichtkoppler for anothervaluable resource, Water Quality Management in Pond Fish Culture.The text was published by the International Center for Aquaculture, Agricultural Experiment Station at AuburnUniversity, Auburn, Alabama, under the direction of R. Dennis Rouse. To Larry Belusz we extend a thankyou for materials used from his Fish Farming Techniques.That text was published as a ;oint effort by the Instructional Materials Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, in coope,ationwith the Missouri Department to Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City, Missouri. r Crawfish in the Classroom is only a five-page brochure, but we thank J. V. Huner of Southern University ark; J. E. Barr of the Louisiana Department of Education for an impressive effort and the good graphics. Glenn L. Hoffman and Andrew J.Mitchell wrote Some Parasites and Diseases of Warmwater Fishes.This was published by the Fish Farming Experimental Station, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Stuttgart, Arkansas.Although it is listed as Fish and Wildlife Leaflet 6,it had a book-size value to the MAVCC effort, and we thank Hoffman and Mitchell for a job well done. A special thank you goes to Harry K. Dupree and Jay V. Huner for the Third Report to the Fish Farmers which they edited. The Report proved its value time and time again. Naturally, our thank you is extended to all the contributors to that marvelous book, and to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for publishing the text. Fish Hatchery Management published by the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, contributed vital information to the unit about trout production. Thanks to Robert G. Piper, Ivan B. McElwain, Leo E. Orme, Joseph P. McCraren, Laurie G. Fowler, John R. Leonard, and others who helped with that excellent text. , , We thank the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the very cooperative people at 1 NEBRASKALand Magazine for their well-illustrated publication, The Fish Book. For their help with other stages of development, we thank Glen Gebhart for help with photographs and his technical expertise, Jim Gleim for special help with the trout farming unit, D. Leroy Gray for help with photographs and information in the baitfish unit, Gary Jensen for help with photographs
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