AS_ 700 Ichthyopathology & diagnostics
Course Content
Basic principles and terms of pathology (injury-dysfunction, necrosis, apoptosis, degeneration). General phenomenology (stress, lesion, haemorrhage, oedema, inflammation, hyperplasia, hypertrophy, atrophy, neoplasia, ulceration etc.). Introduction to fish pathology. Analysis of fish diseases (environmental, nutritional, genetic, contagious or indefinable causes). Systematic pathology (integumental, locomotory, respiratory, digestive, circulatory, neural etc.). Examination methodology (history taking, clinical signs, biopsy/necropsy, post-mortem anatomy). Methodology for sample taking and packaging-sending. The Pathological Laboratory, its organization and operation. Special diagnostic techniques (radioscopic, haematological, histopathological, microbiological, biochemical, immunobiological, biomolecular). Case studies (investigation of incidents).
AS_ 701 Business plan developmen
Course Content
Organizational structure of farming units. Goal Directed Project Management. Objective preparation of the investment. Risk Analysis (principles, tools, applications).Planning a business plan. Business strategy. Workforce development. Product development. Production systems (concept, objectives, types and stages of production, raw materials, types and stages of production, location of installation, minimization of production costs). Financial and accounting analysis-costing. Innovation Investments. Use of new technology. Redesign, re-engineering in the farming businesses. Benchmarking.
AS_ 702 Rearing biotechnology
Course Content
A brief look at breeding animals, birds and fish. The main breeding species in Greece (growth rates, mortality, pathological factors and environmental restrictions on farming). Stables / cells / cages, bird cages, tanks / fish cages: Selection criteria for the establishment of the livestock – poultry – fish farm, breeding water quality criteria, special equipment for breeding units. Management of farmed populations: population loading of livestock, livestock – poultry – fish handling (diet, age / body size screenings, mortality / loss records), slaughter – fishing. Design a specific farming plan in relation to farming restrictions. Use – Proper application of prescription anesthetic and therapeutic preparations to animals – birds – fish of all ages. Selection of vaccines and good practice in vaccination of animals – birds. Vaccination by injection (intramuscular and / or subcutaneous and / or intraperitoneal), food, drinking water, immersion (juvenile bath). Stress: Introduction to farmed fish population and its management techniques. Preventing and killing predators. Environmental impacts. Tutorials: 1) BIONUTRICS Branch and Laboratory Dentistry, 2) Incubator – Pre-Fattening – Fertility Dentistry. Good Practice Reports on: 1) Farm Water Examination, 2) Transfer of Newborn and Adult Animals – Birds – Fish, 3) Application of Anti-suffocation Measures, 4) Examination of Technology Applied to Fattening Farm Animals in Stables / Cells , birds in cages, fish in tanks / cages, 5) Use of a Generator Register for all farmed Animals – Birds – Fish, 6) Use of a Cage / Tank Individual in a newborn animal – hatchery unit 7 Sending Animal Samples – Pet months – Fish for laboratory tests, 8) Radiological examination. Manuals: 1) Manual of Clinical Semiology and Disease Findings, 2) Manual of Clinical Pharmacology, 3) Operation Manual of Bird Hatcheries and Fisheries. Innovations in Farming Biotechnology in the coming decades.
AS_ 703 Animal feed-manufacture technology
Course Content
Definition of the term “ration” and the qualities that characterize it. General principles of rations (purpose, kinds and types of animal – bird – fish feed, raw materials and ingredients). Design and methods of preparing rations as well as factors influencing the production of rations. Composition of rations for dairy – meat production cattle. Composition of rations for dairy – meat production goat and sheep. Composition of rations for swine. Composition of rations for horse, dog, cat, rabbit. Composition of rations for bird. Composition of rations for fish. Special Issues: (i) Feeding of Animal – Bird – Fish genitors. (ii) Food supplements – Balancers. (iii) Pharmaceutical rations and relevant national and European legislation on their use, (iv) Nutrition of larvae and early young fishes and basic principles of the production of live feed (phyto-zooplankton). Stages and industrial equipment for the production of animal – bird – fish feed (pelletization, extrusion, compaction). Quality control and evaluation of the produced animal – bird – fish feed, handling and storage of these. Estimation of feed production costs of animal – bird – fish feed and development of global production of these in the coming decades.
AS_ 704 Fisheries management
Course Content
Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Common Fisheries Policy. Technical issues of European fisheries management. Mediterranean fisheries management. Protected, Endangered and Threatened Species (PET). Management of coastal zone. Marine Protected Areas. Greek fisheries legislation Ι: Technical issues and licensing. Greek fisheries legislation ΙΙ: Typology of fisheries infringements and penalties. Discards and by catch. Management of fisheries monitoring. Sustainable use of fisheries resources. Management of fisheries-fish farming interaction. Revision.
