The Graduate Program in Aquaculture aims to develop technologies for the production of aquatic organisms, both native and exotic adapted to local climate, with significant production potential. In addition to stimulating the production and consumption of high nutritional quality food, the Program is concerned with the sustainable development of the activity, providing scientific subsidies to significantly reduce the environmental impacts of aquaculture effluents, rich in organic matter and nutrients. In this sense, the development of methodologies for finfish and shellfish production with minimal water renewal has been improved, as in systems employing biofloc technology and in multi-trophic systems. The latter allows the production of marine shrimps, fish, mollusks and plants in an integrated system, with water recirculation and utilization of the food available in the system by several groups of organisms of different trophic levels. The ultimate goal of these researches is to provide food security and quality as well as the socio-economic development of the territory. For such, partnerships with national and international research and higher education institutions and companies are of great importance. Among them are the Waddell Mariculture Center, Texas A & M University and Auburn University (USA), Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), and Ghent University (Belgium).

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