Lectures: 1. Fish (Osteichthyes) – systematic, geographical distribution, water environment of the fish (freshwater, brackish, saltwater); the main characteristics of the fish versus higher vertebrates. 2. Overview of the main freshwater fish species with focus on the cultured fish and sport fishing; ecologically important and protected species, gene pool preservation of the fish; fish zones. 3. World aquaculture – overview; carp and trout pond-farms, fish breeding in Slovakia; artificial reproduction of the fish, breeding and nursery of fish younglings and age categories of the main economically important species. 4. The fish as the part of environment; fish as bioindicator; foreign substances in fish – entrance pathways and their circulation in environment, present status and their influence on fish production and reproduction. 5. Fish environment; optimal conditions for fish breeding (pH, O2, NH4, temperature, organic pollution, feeding etc.); fish diseases and disorders caused by unsuitable life conditions. 6. Veterinary measures in fish breeds, therapeutical and prophylactic techniques and means; harvesting, storing, life fish transport. 7. Especially dangerous and notifiable diseases of freshwater fishes (OIE), zoonoses and veterinary measures, quarantine, disinfection. 8. Important diseases of marine fish in aquaculture - overview, measures, therapy and prophylaxis 9. Breeding and diseases of other freshwater and marine animals (Crustacea, Mollusca) important in aquaculture. 10. Therapy of fish diseases; particularities in therapy of cyprinid, salmonid and tropical fish species. 11. Medicaments overview - indications, therapeutical doses, risks and applications methods and techniques. 12. Aquaculture lows - brief overview (Veterinary Care, Fishery, IUCN, CITES, Invasive Species List) 13. Harvesting of the carp ponds - techniques and methods. Practicals: 1. Nomenclature, taxonomical status, biology and geographical distribution of individual freshwater fish species with the focus on economically important, protected and invasive species of Slovakia. 2. Examination of the fish health status in situ (escaping reflex, food intake, changes in the swimming manner etc.) and after fish out; condition assessment and clinical examination of the fish (body shape, external structures, gills, oral cavity, eyes, anus); sampling and samples exporting to the laboratory examinations (case history, personal data, sex and age determination). 3. Anatomical dissection – topographic a functional anatomy of each taxonomical group with the focus on general interspecific differences; haematological examination (blood collection, composition, methods). 4. Pathologic-anatomical fish dissection – differential diagnostics of causative agents of fish mortalities (asphyxia, intoxications, infectious and parasitic diseases); laboratory diagnostics of fish diseases, pathological changes, postmortal changes; sampling and samples processing for virological, bacteriological, mycological, parasitic, histological, toxicological examination and foreign substances. 5. Protozooses, cestodoses, trematodoses – parasitological dissection and microscopical diagnostics of parasitological diseases of fish and important zoonoses, differential diagnostics, prophylaxis. 6. Nematodoses, acanthocephaloses, hirudineoses, arthropodoses – parasitological dissection, andmicroscopical diagnostics of parasitological diseases of fish and important zoonoses, differential diagnostics, prophylaxis. 7. Viral diseases of freshwater fish species - symptoms, pathologic-anatomical changes, diagnostic methods, differential diagnostics, prophylaxis. 8. Bacterial diseases of freshwater fish species - symptoms, pathologic-anatomical changes, diagnostic methods, differential diagnostics, prophylaxis 9. Mycotic diseases of freshwater fish species - symptoms, pathologic-anatomical changes, diagnostic methods, differential diagnostics, prophylaxis 10. Intoxications in fish – sampling and export of the fish samples to toxicological examination; diagnostics of intoxications on the basis of the water and fish samples; acute toxicity test in fish and water animals - importance, methods, evaluation; biological experiment; diseases of the fish eggs and fry. 11. Overview of the other popular freshwater and marine animals (Crustacea, Mollusca) important in aquaculture, invasive and protected species; characteristics, life cycles, ecological status. 12. Main pathogens of the other freshwater and marine animals important in aquaculture and their role in spreading of the significant zoonoses, diagnostics, therapy and prophylaxis. 13. Credit test |