Course

Laboratory Animal Science - Electrofishing

Self-paced

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Full course description

This is an online self-study education, i.e. without live lectures. Your knowledge is examined by completing the online self assessments after each module.

This part of the Laboratory Animal Science course is focused on using electricity as fish survey techniques, i.e. sampling fish in the wild.  This method is a European standard and differs quite a lot from using animals in captivity (in laboratories).

The methods means that you sample (catch) the fish with electricity, using equipment designed for this purpose. You store the fish in buckets or tanks, anaesthetize them, measure length (and sometimes weight), let them recover and finally restock them.