Lesson series

Why Aquaculture?

This is a great place to start. Why spend your precious time learning about Aquaculture....? This course will answer all of that and more. We zoom out we zoom in, we zoom all over and we cant wait to have you along for the ride. So deep breath and lets dive right in.
Duration

Approx. 4 hours

There are:

13 very short quizzes

Price

FREE

Course contents

What's included?

  • 7 Sections 
  • 18 videos
  • 13 quizzes
  • 4 industry experts
  • 22 interactive podcast ebooks
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The best place to start

This is the prefect place to start. Perhaps you have just started a job in aquaculture, or are considering what to study or just curious about this topic. Here you will learn why people are so passionate about this industry and why aquaculture really is an important part of our worlds future.

What we'll take you through

In this course we start slow - what are the key reasons why aquaculture is a good idea? We then zoom right out to look at aquacultures place in global development, before zooming right back in to talk to people involved in the industry and learn what its really like on a day to day basis from a range of industry experts. 

Course break down

Why Aquaculture.

1. Introduction

A warm welcome to the course and an overview around what will be covered

2. What is aquaculture

A very quick break down about the industry we are going to learn so much more about

3. Key reasons to learn about aquaculture

In this section we look at the main reasons aquaculture is going to play a vital part in the worlds future.

4. Global aquaculture

We zoom right out here to look at what part aquaculture plays in global development.

5. Aquaculture on the ground

Why people have chosen this industry for their life's work

6. Summary

Here we review the course and take stock. We also look at where to next.
Meet your tutor

Denise Hearn

  • Email:

  • denise@aqualearnlab.com
Denise has been involved in aquaculture for about 20 years. She has been educating people about marine conservation and aquaculture since 2012 and continues to do so to this day. She has worked all over the world with a large range of different species, including sea weed, micro algae, lobsters, shrimp, clownfish, salmon, mussels, crayfish, kingfish, amberjacks, grouper and many more. She has worked in RAS, in large flow through systems and offshore aquaculture. Denise is passionate about the environment and about aquaculture.

Click below to check out the about us page where you can meet Denise and hear more about her journey. 

Experts featured on this course.

Nick Hearn

Nick is the leader of the technical operations team at Cawthron NZ.

Caroline Gilbertson

Caroline is the sustainability coordinator at Aquaculture New Zealand and is the co founder of Women in Aquaculture Aotearoa.

Julien Stevens

Julien is the Research and Development Manager at New Zealand King Salmon.
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