Graduate Programs – Areas of Study

Graduate students are required to prepare a thesis or dissertation concerning original research during their tenure in the degree program. Areas of study are available in the following areas:

Aquaculture

• Pond and hatchery production technologies
•  Aquatic animal nutrition
•  Water quality
•  Fish health/pathology
•  Economics and marketing of aquaculture products
•  Aquaculture engineering
•  Aquaculture production systems

Fisheries

• Fisheries management & ecology

• Small impoundment management & ecology
• Fish bioenergetics
• Larval fish ecology
• Fisheries & ecological modeling
• Invasive species