OCB 2723C — Nutrition of Mariculture Species
A practical introduction to basic principles of nutrition and feeding of common mariculture species. Topics include digestion and metabolism, biochemical aspects of nutritionally-important macromolecules, vitamins and minerals, feed formulations and management, nutritional deficiencies and bioenergetics of ecological polyculture. The course will focus primarily on marine heterotrophic organisms but will briefly cover nutrient requirements of marine autotrophs.