Aquaculture - Training manual

Acknowledgments

Forward

Chapter one: Introduction

Chapter two: Training philosophy and methodology

Chapter three: Goals and objectives

Chapter four: Site requirements, logistics and length of training

Chapter five: Trainee qualifications and assessment

Chapter six: Staff qualifications, staffing pattern and staff training

Chapter seven: Ten-week program: summary and weekly schedule of events

Chapter eight: Eight-week program: limltations, adjustments, program summary and weekly schedule of events

Chapter nine: Program design considerations and orientation

Chapter ten: Program design - week one

Session I-1: Trainee arrival

Session I-2: Orientation

Session I-3: Expectations, rules and norms

Session I-4: Individual focusing

Session I-5: Pond observations

Session I-6: Processing - pond observations

Session I-7: Personal Interview - week one

Session I-8: Processing of week one - bridge to Peace Corps, goal setting

Chapter eleven: Program design - week two

Session II-1: Management plan (part one)

Session II-2: Group discussion - profit incentive in fish farming

Session II-3: Stocking of ponds

Session II-4: Group discussion - fish handling

Session II-5: Use of tools and pumps

Session II-6: Trainee evaluation of training - week two

Chapter twelve: Program design - week three

Session III-1: Quiz (week three)

Session III-2: Management plan (part two)

Session III-3: Equipment shed, feed shed and pump - trainee responsibilities

Session III-4: Weekly technical report requirements

Session III-5: Field trips - week three

Session III-6: Processing of field trip

Session III-7: Masonry and carpentry projects

Session III-8: Dissection exercise

Session III-9: Social awareness

Session III-10: Personal interview - week three

Chapter thirteen: Program design - week four

Session IV-1: Introduction to surveying

Session IV-2: Surveying projects

Session IV-3: Pond interview - week four

Session IV-4: Trainee evaluation of training - week four

Chapter fourteen: Program design - week five

Session V-1: Guest lecturer - site selection, pond design and pond construction

Session V-2: Quiz - week five

Session V-3: Site development/pond design

Session V-4: Processing of masonry project

Session V-5: Issues in peace corps aquaculture programming

Session V-6: Introduction of seminars and seminar topics

Session V-7: Fish fry

Session V-8: Personal interview - week five

Chapter fifteen: Program design - week six

Design VI-1: Seminar preparation and presentations

Session VI-2: Pond interview week six

Session VI-3: Trainee evaluation of program - week six

Chapter sixteen: Program design- week seven

Session VII-1: Meeting - preparation for field trip

Chapter seventeen: Program design - week eight

Chapter eighteen: Program design - week nine

Session IX-1: Field trip debriefing/reentry to training

Session IX-2: Site selection/pond design

Session IX-3: Wheelbarrow project

Session IX-4: Pond construction project

Session IX-5: Final reports

Session IX-6: Pond interview - week nine

Session IX-7: Personal interview - week nine

Session IX-8 Country specific information

Session IX-9: Trainer panels

Session IX-10: Male and female volunteer issues

Session IX-11: Level of intensity assignment wrap-up

Session IX-12: Basic management strategy for Oreochromis niloticus

Session IX-13: Final harvests

Session IX-14: Fish marketing

Chapter nineteen: Program design - week ten

Session X-1: Culture shock

Session X-2: Processing of pond construction project (and wheelbarrows)

Session X-3: Final interviews

Session X-4: Final trainee evaluation of training program

Chapter twenty: Program evaluation

Chapter twenty-one: Recommendations for in-country training

Chapter twenty-two: Publications, equipment and materials