Master in Aquaculture and Fisheries
Faro, Portugal
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,000 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* from 11/03/2025 to 04/04/25
** for International students| National students: EUR 1100 per year
Key Summary
Introduction
The Master in Aquaculture and Fisheries has two specializations: one in Aquaculture and another in Fisheries. In addition to the predominant areas of the Aquaculture and Fisheries Sciences course, other important areas are Environmental Sciences and Biological Sciences.
Objectives
Provide students with the knowledge and training required for the assessment, management, conservation and sustainable exploitation of living resources. Provide students with the knowledge and training required for the production of species in different aquaculture production systems. Training of professionals for aquaculture and fisheries. Provide skills that enable lifelong learning in a self-oriented or autonomous manner. Create the competencies during the Masters to enable progress to a higher level of specialization at the PhD level. To train professionals able to communicate their knowledge to the scientific as well as non-scientific public.
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Admissions
Curriculum
Year 1
1st Semester
- Experimental Planning
- Fisheries Biology and Ecology
- R Basic in Statistics
- Techniques in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Topics in Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Conservation
- Option 1.1
2nd Semester
- Culture of Live Feed and Larviculture
- Genetics and Selection
- Pathology in Aquaculture
- Reproduction in Aquaculture
- Transformation of Aquatic Products
- Option 1.2.1
- Option 1.2.2
Year 2
Annual
- Thesis / Report
1st Semester
- Project Dissertation
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
In private and public institutions related to fisheries and aquaculture research.
In the liberal professions, in consultancy and advisory services, and even in the creation of new businesses, particularly in the fields of biotechnological innovation, aquaculture and product valorisation.
Environmental protection and conservation organisations, fishermen's associations, NGOs and even fishing companies, as laboratory, sampling and monitoring technicians. In marine organism culture centres, as a laboratory technician