Aquaculture - Explanation and career options

I am pursuing my 12th class and I am interested to know more about aqua culture course?

Aqua culture is a study of aquatic plants and animals. These aquatic species are kept in a controlled environment where they grow and produce. This particular is growing in the market due to the knowledge of aquatic benefits in the people and awareness of the aquatic products. It is one of the fastest growing industries and it includes the production of fish and shellfish products. Other products are also there in the market that you will get to study like trout, batfish, ornamental fish, invertebrates and plants. Aquaculture denotes a part of applied science which is the combination of biology, ecology, physics, chemistry, oceanography, and engineering. There are various job opportunities available in this field from farm workers to engineers.

What are the types of careers I can get into after choosing the field of aquaculture?

There are many different types of careers to choose from when choosing an industry as vast as aquaculture. Aquaculture includes the domain of both plants and animals so the types of careers are as follows:

- Aquaculture farmer and aquatic microbiologist
- Boat captain or Consultant
- Economist
- Enforcement officer or Engineer
- Equipment vendor
- Extension specialist
- Feed developer
- Gear technology designer
- Hatchery manager
- Health inspector
- Investor
- Laboratory technician
- Marketing professional
- Pathologist
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Processor
- Product distributor
- Resource manager
- Scientific writer
- Teacher
- Veterinarian
- Water quality technician
- Zoo keeper /Aquarist