7:00 AM: Breakfast
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Fish Collection
Presenter: Dr. Jerry Corsaut, FAU/HBOI Aquatic Field Research Group
We participated in fish collection using bag seines and boats off the Spoil Islands in the Indian River Lagoon. Once specimens were collected we returned to the laboratory to perform blood collection, physical exams, anesthesia, euthanasia, ante-mortem sampling for toxicology and parasitology, necropsy, and tissue collections for histopathology, parasitology, microbiology, virology, and toxicology.
12:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Lunch, Shower, Change of Clothes (biosecurity measures)
2:30 – 4:30 PM: Tour of FAU/HBOI Aquaculture Facilities
Presenter: Dr. Paul Wills and Ms. Amber Garr of the Aquaculture Research and Education Program of FAU/HBOI
We were led through closed aquaculture facilities for culture of expensive food fish, ornamental fish, and conch.
4:30 – 5:30 PM: Impacts of Aquaculture
Presenter: Dr. Lovy
Lovy led us through some of the impacts of intensive semi-open aquaculture culture systems on wild fishes and other components of the environment.
5:30 – 6:30 PM: Dinner
6:30 – 7:30 PM: Global Stressors and Outcomes on Aquatic Animals and Ecosystem
Presenter: Dr. Kleinow.
7:30 – 8:30 PM: Debate
The days instructors led us through debate, discussion, and visioning for the future of wild fisheries and aquaculture addressing two questions: what should be done and how can we get there?
Evening:
I was so tired by the time the day was over that I collapsed into bed as soon as I got to the hotel room
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