Opening a Laboratory of Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture at the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering (NUWEE)

The event was attended by Viktor Soroka, Vice-Rector for Scientific, Pedagogical and Educational Work, Alla Pryshchepa, Director of the Institute of Agroecology and Land Management (ILAM), Andriy Safonyk, Director of the Institute of Energy, Automation and Water Engineering (IEAWE), teaching staff and other ILAM employees, students of the “Aquatic Bioresources and Aquaculture” programme and invited business people from Rivne and the Kyiv region.

The laboratory will be a practical base for students starting their studies at NUWEE in 2024-2025 as part of the AFISHE project’s updated Master’s programme. The laboratory will also improve the level of practical training in the Bachelor’s programme in the same subject area.

In addition to the rearing tanks in various shapes and sizes, the project enabled the purchase of pumping and blower systems, mechanical and biological water treatment equipment, temperature control equipment, dissolved oxygen monitoring and automatic fish feeding. NUWEE scientists will share their experience with students in researching the technological aspects of rearing promising subjects in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), determining rational feeding parameters and physicochemical parameters of water quality, and developing water quality restoration devices. In this way, the laboratory will contribute to the intensive development of modern technologies and the training of modern aquaculture specialists.

In addition, the laboratory could offer anyone interested the opportunity to train in the cultivation of aquaculture objects in RAS. The fish feed production line, which will also be part of the material base of the laboratory, will allow the local farm to provide feed from its own production, prove the effectiveness of different recipes and carry out comparative studies on different types of feed.