Organisation : Kerala Public Service Commission
Announcement : Syllabus
Designation : Aquaculture Expert

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Aquaculture Expert Exam Syllabus :
Module 1 :
Relevance and scope of aquaculture. Global trends in aquaculture. Status of aquaculture in India. Candidate species in inland and marine aquaculture. Carps, catfish, murrels, tilapia, prawns/shrimps, cobia, sea bass and carangids.

Different farming systems:Extensive, semi intensice, intensive, composite/poly culture, integrated fish farming, raceway culture, cage culture, satellite farming, wastewater-fed aquaculture, sustainable aquaculture. Aqua ranching, aqua tourism.

Module 2 :
Selection of site for aquaculture. Farm engineering-surveying-leveling-trapezoidal and Sumpson’s rule, site selection for aquaculture farms. Water resources and their suitability, quantity and quality assessment.

Aqua farm design and construction: Types of ponds, shape, size and orientation, design of embankments, pond bottom, pond inlets, outlets, sluice gates and monks; water supply channels and drainage systems, design considerations for integrated aqua farms.

Design and construction of enclosures, pens, cages, raceways, flow-through systems and re-circulatory aquaculture systems, bio filters, effluent treatment systems. Equipments in farm and hatchery.

Module 3 :
Farming practices for cultivable inland species: carps, catfish, murrels, tilapia, freshwater prawns and cold water fishes. Grow out practices: pre-stocking and post stocking management, harvesting, improved strains for culture such as GIFT. Advanced farming practices and value addition, eco labeling, aqua ponics, biofloc techniques, RAS and organic farming

Module 4 :
Farming practices for marine and estuarine fishes such as pearl spot, sea bass, cobia, pompano, milk fish and mullets. Farming practices for shrimps. Environmental impacts of intensive aquaculture.

Module 5 :
Seed production of fishes : Carps-wild collection and transportation, bundh breeding, brood stock maintenance, design of hatchery, hypophysation, ovulating agents like Ovaprim, Ovatide etc., seed production of exotic carps.

Seed production in catfishes, murrels and tilapia. Seed production and culture of brackish water/marine fishes pearl spot, sea bass, milk fish, mullets, groupers, cobia and carangids.

Module 6 :
Seed production of freshwater prawns : Water quality requirements, feeding, health management, design of prawn culture and farm management. Shrimp seed production:brood stock maintenance, larval stages, feeding, water quality requirements, health management, packing and transportation, design of shrimp hatchery. Seed production and culture of crabs and lobsters. Seed production and culture of mussels, oysters and clams.

Module 7 :
Brood stock management: availability, collection, transport, captive, rearing, maturation. Nutritional requirements of fishes (carps, cobia, groupers, pompano, sea bass, milk fish, mullets, pearl spot) and shellfishes(shrimps, crabs, lobsters, mussels and oysters).

Nutritional quality of commonly used fish food organisms, bio-enrichment of fish food organisms. Formulation and preparation of artificial feeds for larval rearing, micro particulate diets, particulate and macro encapsulated diets. Algal culture.

Module 8 :
Global status of ornamental fish trade, present status and prospects of ornamental fish farming and trade in India, Indian ornamental fish diversity and its status. Marketing strategies, anesthetics, packing and transportation.

Captive breeding techniques of commercially important indigenous and marine ornamental fishes. Prerequisite for establishment of ornamental fish breeding, culture unit for entrepreneurship development. Socio -economic upliftment and ornamental fish culture.