Topics:
1) Farm and aquaculture operations costs;
2) Record and organization of costs;
3) Calculation of the depreciation of facilities, equipments and vehicles;
4) Elaboration and analysis of monthly cash flow;
5) Proration of production costs;
6) Cash flow adjustment through standing stock;
7) Questions unanswered by the cash flow;
8) How to estimate production cost per pond and per species;
9) Use of financial results towards management;
10) Applied exercises of financial control in aquaculture operations;
11) CD with example spreadsheets and spreadsheets for the construction of financial controls and monthly and annual cash flow for aquaculture enterprises.

Tópics:
1) Important physiological aspects of fish during transport;
2) Factors that affect transport success;
3) Adjustment of the fish transport load according to fish size, water temperature and transport time;
4) Conditioning and prophylactic products;
5) Care in handling fish and routine procedures during transport;
6) Equipments and fish loads in the transport of fingerlings and grown fish.

Topics:
1) Fish digestive anatomy and physiology;
2) Essential nutrients: Functions and requirements of different species;
3) Nutrition of  Brazilian fishes;
4) Nutrition and feeding of brood stock and post-larvae;
5) Feed formulation and manufacturing: ingredient restriction;
6) Feeding management and feed conversion;
7) Feed pollution potential;
10) Nutritional disorders.

Topics:
1) Relationship between environmental quality and occurrence of diseases;
2) Susceptibility of fish and ways of disease transmission;
3) Fish defense mechanisms;
4) Prevention of diseases and parasitoses;
5) Indicative signs of diseases and nutritional deficiencies;
6) Therapeutic and prophylactic products;
7) Main parasites of farmed fish;
8) Main pathogenic bacteria of farmed fish;
9) Nutritional diseases;
10) Environmental syndromes;
11) Fish necropsy procedures;
12) Strategies for monitoring fish health.

Topics:
1) Fundamentals of planning and control in fish production;
2) Factors affecting fish growth;
3) Production capacity in different culture systems;
4) Factors that limit productivity in different culture systems;
5) Concept of critical biomass, economical biomass and carrying capacity; the use of these concepts in planning fish production;
6) Production in phases and growth performance parameters for different fish species;
7) Use of the economic biomass concept and growth performance parameters if planning fish production – EXAMPLE
8) Record and organization of production results and information;
9) DISK with spreadsheets for planning and cost estimative of fish production.

Topics:
1) Planning of aquaculture enterprises;
2) Planning of aquaculture production;
3) Basic financial aspects in project analysis;
4) Relevant information for the construction of the cash flow in projects: cash flow components and settings;
5) Construction of the cash flow;
6) Evaluation methods for analyzing investment projects: net present value, internal rate of return, payback, profitability index, among others;
7) In depth project analysis with the net present value method;
8) Economic feasibility analysis and selection of investment projects.

Topics:
1) Important physiological characteristics of fish related to production;
2) Sources and use of water in fish farming;
3) Indicators, monitoring and correction of water quality;
4) Phytoplankton and water quality: oxygen dynamics and chemical buffer system;
5) Origin and recycling of residues; pond fertilization strategies / feed quality and water quality;
6) Dissolved oxygen dynamics and aeration in intensive fish farming;
7) Decomposition of organic matter and soil management in ponds;
8) Water quality in high flow systems.

Topics:
1) Brood stock maintenance and stocking densities;
2) Reproduction physiology applied to hormone induced spawning: environmental stimuli and the hormones from the hypothalamus, pituitary and gonads;
3) Brood stock selection for hormone induced spawning;
4) Pituitary extract and synthetic hormones;
5) Induced spawning management;
6) Egg incubation, embryonic development and care of larvae and post-larvae;
7) Pond larviculture: Feeds for post-larvae; pond preparation; post-larvae predator control, fertilization for the production of natural feeds, stocking densities, water quality management;
8) Strategies for improving fingerling resistance to handling and transport.

Topics:
1) World tilapia production;
2) Tilapia species, lineages and hybrids;
3) Water quality in tilapia production;
4) Carrying capacity in different tilapia production systems;
5) Pond fertilization in tilapia farming;
6) Production planning;
7) Nutrition and feeding of tilapias;
8) Tilapia reproduction;
9) Sex reversal and strategies for production of monosex tilapia populations;
10) Main diseases in tilapia farming;
11) Tilapia processing and meat quality.

Topics:

1) Principles of fish production in cages;
2) Low volume and high volume cages;
3) carying capacity and productivity in cages:
4) Structures and materials used to construct fish cages;
5) Fingerling’s quality and nutrition and feeding management;
6) Common problems in cage fish production;
7) Carrying capacity and economical biomass of reservoirs for cage culture;
8) Alternatives to minimize environmental impact of cage fish production.