Science, Agriculture - Food, Engineering

Sustainable Production and Exploitation of Aquatic Bioresources

  • ECTS

    60 credits

  • Duration

    1 year

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Science

  • Language(s) of instruction

    French

Presentation

Aquaculture has supplanted fishing in the supply of seafood for human consumption worldwide. The controlled production of aquatic organisms plays a crucial role in alleviating the growing need for sustainably produced aquatic foods.

The aim of this course is to train future scientists with a broad range of skills across the entire fisheries and aquaculture sector, with a view to ensuring responsible aquaculture production and fishing, and ecosystem-based management of aquatic resources and environments.

The AQUADURA program is a professionalization programthat enables students to enter the job market directly after graduation. Continuation into a thesis is very marginal, and is mainly in R&D or integrated management fields. It is open to apprentices in M1 and M2.

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  • 95%

    Success rates

Objectives

Its objectives are to train students in (i) aquaculture production, its management and management, (ii) fisheries, (iii) the development and management of aquatic bioresources as well as (iv) the integrated management of the environments exploited by these activities

Cultivation practices, the development of new sectors of activity and the fields of research and development are targeted in this course.

Particular attention will be given to the sustainability of practices and approaches in the context of increasing exploitation of aquatic bioresources and climate change

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Know-how and skills

It is a multidisciplinary training course that aims to provide the necessary foundations for:

  • Understand the dynamics of living resources and aquatic ecosystems and their interactions,
  • Be able to analyse the functioning of operating systems, from upstream to downstream of the sectors,
  • Develop a critical understanding of aquaculture development and principles,
  • Produce species in different aquaculture production systems, in a sustainable way, taking into account epidemiological, environmental and welfare regulations,
  • Integrated assessment and management of human impact on exploited aquatic ecosystems
  • Assess, exploit and sustainably manage aquatic bioresources,

Contribute to cutting-edge research on the development of practices and the valorization of aquatic bioresources

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International dimension

M1 and M2 internships can be carried out abroad.

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Organization

Open on a sandwich basis

Contract type

Apprenticeship contract, Professionalization contract

Program

Year of M1: common to four courses of the "Environmental Management" Mention (RAINET', IEGB, Aquadura, ComBiodiv). This year allows students to acquire the scientific bases, particularly in ecology and biostatistics. Optional UEs also allow students to start specialising.

The M2 is very specialized with courses in production, fisheries, law, quality management and project management.

The AQUADURA master's degree is open to initial, continuing and apprenticeship training.

Internships and tutored projects :

M1 internship: 4.5 to 6 months which can be done in France or abroad

M2 internship: 6 months which can be done in France or abroad

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Select a program

M2 - Sustainable Production and Exploitation of Aquatic Bioresources

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  • Salon de l'écologie-1

    2 credits1h
  • Aquariology

    2 credits
  • Host/pathogen interactions in aquatic animals

    2 credits
  • M2 FI project

    4 credits2h
  • New technologies for studying biodiversity

    2 credits
  • Tools and methods for the dynamic study of marine ecosystems

    2 credits3h
  • Use and assessment of marine resources

    2 credits15h
  • Aquaculture

    6 credits
  • Project management

    2 credits15h
  • Genetic improvement and diversity management in aqua environments

    2 credits
  • UE CHOIX 1

    2 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 5

      • TOIC/TOEFL preparation

        2 credits
      • Ecology of marine and coastal ecosystems

        2 credits8h
      • Methods and analysis of SHS surveys

        2 credits
      • Société Ecologie Environnement Anthropo (Pyrenees seminar)

        2 credits
      • Advanced GIS

        2 credits
  • Public maritime domain and sea law

    2 credits15h
  • Quality management

    2 credits15h
  • Final year internship M2 GE AQUA

    20 credits
  • COGITHON

    4 credits
  • M2 GE professionalization

    4 credits

Admission

Access conditions

For M1: Students graduating from Licence 3 EBO, BEST, BE, SVT or equivalent diploma. Some students from professional courses are also accepted.

For the M2: Students with an M1 in ecology or other (dual skills), engineering and veterinary schools

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How to register

Applications can be submitted on the following platforms: 

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Target audience

For M1: Students graduating from Licence 3 EBO, BEST, BE, SVT or equivalent diploma. Some students from professional courses are also accepted.

For the M2: Students with an M1 in ecology or other (dual skills), engineering and veterinary schools

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And then

Bridges and reorientation

At the end of the Master 1 in Environmental and Biodiversity Management, the student who has acquired his or her 180 ECTS can request to be redirected towards another Master 2 course with a specialization in Environmental Management than the one in which he or she had applied to enter Master 1 (among Rainet', ComBiodiv, IEGB and AQUADURA). However, this reorientation will be subject to the approval of the pedagogical managers of the course in question.

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Professional integration

Sectors of activity targeted:

  • aquaculture production
  • Fisheries
  • Aquariology
  • Inventory management
  • the management of ecosystems exploited by fishing and/or aquaculture
  • The Fishery Products and Aquaculture Specialist Council
  • processed products or products extracted from aquatic bioresources
  • R&D in aquaculture
  • traceability and quality

 

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