ZOO720: Fish marketing, cooperatives and taxonomy 6 credits (40-10-10)

Objectives

To study the marketing systems and cooperative organization in fish economics and to undertake an identification and classification of marine and freshwater fisheries.

Contents

Marketing, traditional systems, modern methods, cooperatives, fish economics, capital investment and depreciation of equipment; rules of supply and demand; cost of distribution; cooperative organisation; principles of taxonomy and identification of freshwater and marine fishes.