Master's Programme

ACADEMIC SESSION AND TERM CALENDAR

The Academic year shall be divided into two semesters.

For M.F.Sc. Course

  • I semester:   1st August
  • II semester:   10th January

  • Generally, two weeks vacation is allowed after the completion of the semester examination.

BROAD AREAS OF STUDY
  • Aquaculture: Freshwater aquaculture; brackish water aquaculture and mariculture; seaweed culture; soil and water chemistry; ornamental fish culture; cage culture
  • Fishery Resource Management: freshwater, estuarine and marine biology; endocrinology; reproductive physiology; population dynamics and stock assessment; taxonomy; biodiversity; craft and gear technology; remote sensing and GIS application
  • Aquatic Environmental Management: limnology; oceanography; pollution; microbiology; toxicology; bioremediation; biodiversity
  • Aquatic Animal Health Management: pathology; parasitology; immunology; virology; health management in aquaculture; systemic pathology
  • Fish Genetics and Breeding: principles of genetics and breeding; population genetics; quantitative genetics
  • Biotechnology: molecular biology; biotechnology/reproductive biotechnology; genetic engineering and cloning; biochemical and immune genetics
  • Fish Physiology and Biochemistry: basic principles of biochemistry; digestive physiology; reproductive endocrinology; stress physiology; enzyme technology
  • Post Harvest Technology: Fish processing ; product development and quality assurance ; pilot plant design and scaling up
  • Fish Nutrition and Feed Technology: feed formulation; feed technology
  • Fisheries Economics: economics; marketing and cooperatives
  • Fisheries Extension: extension policy; entrepreneurship development; extension administration and extension for rural fish farm enterprise; communication; adoption and diffusion processes; extension methods; statistics; informatics