What you'll learn:
- Understand why we need aquaculture and why itʻs growing so fast.
- Explore many, many types of aquaculture
- Get started with an aquaponic garden at home to grow organic fish and vegetables.
- Acquire great tips on how to start a commercial business with aquaculture or aquaponics.
- Become familiar with fish anatomy and physiology.
- Get excited about the pet fish industry
- Know the signs that your fish are sick
"ATOLL: Aquaculture Training On-Line Learning" course features over 85 video lectures and quizzes covering:
Fisheries today and the need for aquaculture
History of aquaculture and animal husbandry
Types of aquaculture systems
The pet fish industry
Water chemistry
Measurements and Calculations
Fish anatomy & physiology
Fish health and biosecurity
Fish nutrition
Aquaculture Engineering
Aquaponics - growing vegetables with fish tanks
Starting an aquaculture business
Zebrafish
IMTA: Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture
How to get your aquatic medicine approved and more....
Career tech educators - use these lectures to "flip" your classroom. Students watch the video lectures at home, and your class time can be spent completely in "hands-on" learning laboratories. Quizzes are embedded for easy self-check.
LOOK: ATOLL has been approved as meeting the State of Alabama CTE Standards.
NEW: Get a SCHOOL WIDE LICENSE for only $500 which provides up to 50 student logins.This incredible online introduction to aquaculture is "one of a kind" in the educational community. Using multiple, expert instructors, we hope to convince you to get started on your journey in this exciting industry with interesting video lectures and plenty of self-assessments to insure that you are "getting it." Learn why aquaculture and aquaponics are the fastest growing branches of agriculture today.
Want to jump in the hands-on work? Then skip right to the aquaponics section and grow your own organic vegetables using freshwater fish to reduce your growing time and save a ton of water.
Jump in and challenge yourself to complete the entire course and all the quizzes. Several schools (high school/community college/university) have used our ATOLL course for graduation credit.
