30 min lessons

Why Aquaculture?

This is a great place to start. Why spend your precious time learning about Aquaculture....? This course is the short and snappy version of our full  'Why Aquaculture course' (4hr). In this condensed version we briefly let you settle in, before embarking on a whistle stop tour through all the reasons aquaculture is a key part of our worlds future. Hold onto your seats - lets go!
Duration

Approx. 30 min

There are:

3 very short game style quizzes

Price

FREE

Course contents

What's included?

  • 5 Sections 
  • 7 videos
  • 3 quizzes
  • 3 industry experts
  • 6 interactive podcast e-books
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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 start by making sure everyone is on the same page with a quick introduction to aquaculture, a stop to discuss some of the environmental issues before jumping into the key reasons why aquaculture is so important for the future. We then finish off by finding out what its like to work in the industry and why people choose it for their career. 
Meet your tutor

Denise Hearn

  • Email:

  • denise@aquaculturelearninglab.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.
Click here to find out more about Cawthron and the work that Nick does. 
Click here to find out more about Cawthron and the work that Nick does. 

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.

What our students say about this course

A great overview. Good amount of detail without going over the top
- Erica
Very well presented. Such a great short course to perk the interest of those with questions about the industry
- Michael
Great visuals, lovely imagery, great story. Experts were great, all from different disciplines but all excited about the industry
- Tiarnan

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Frequently asked questions

"Will this course get me a qualification?"

This is just a free course as an introduction to aquaculture, there is no qualification for this course. 

"Will I be able to access this course after I have completed it?"

Absolutely - this free course is available for you to access any time any where for as many times as you like.

"Which course would you recommend to follow on from this one?"

The 'what is aquaculture' course would be a great follow on from this course. However if during this course there were areas that you were more specifically interested in you can head directly to those. 

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