Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Aquaculture (CEFRA)Aquaculture Research and Education Center

Research and Education Center in Aquaculture

EducationApplied

Research Fundamental

Research

Master inAquaculture

Technical formation

Ph.D

Master

Tropical aquaculture

Temperate Aquaculture

Experimental Biology

Genetic / physiology

ContinentalAquaculture

Cooperation

Facilities

• Near a Nuclear Power PlantNear a Nuclear Power Plant

• 2 greenhouses2 greenhouses

•3 recircultating aquaculture 3 recircultating aquaculture systems and 3 flow through systems and 3 flow through systemssystems

• Larval rearing facilitiesLarval rearing facilities

• Outdoor tanksOutdoor tanks

• LaboratoriesLaboratories

• Ponds Ponds

Water supply

Water from river Meuse 4 to 25°C Ground water

• 17°C

Warm water from the nuclear power plant

• 20 to 40°C

Education

Inter-University master in aquaculture– 1 year– 16 students /year– 12 grant holder / year from Belgian cooperation – Systematic, ecology, Aquaculture biological basis,

pathology, nutrition, genetic, biostatistic, production system, aquatic rearing technology, aquariology, product quality, economical and legislative aspects

– Master’s thesis Ph.D

– 1 to 2 Ph.D / year– Genetic, reproductive and growth physiology, sex

determination, … Technical

– 3 month work experience– Rearing technology and rearing systems

Applied Research

Tropical AquacultureTropical Aquaculture– Tilapias, Clarias,

Characidae, grass carp– Production– Genetical and growth

improvement– Rearing technology– Rearing system– Biological control

Applied Research

Temperate aquaculture– Percid (perch and sander)

• Growth improvement• Domestication• Monosex families production• Improvement of production

– Cyprinidae (koï carp)• Improvement of larval rearing• Systemic approach against

KHV

– Rearing system : • flow through and

recirculating aquaculture systems

Applied Research Cooperation

– Fish farming

– Aquatic weed control in Senegal (Grass carp)

Fundamental research

Experimental biologyExperimental biology– Reproduction and gametes quality– Effect of environmental and biotic factors on growth

GeneticGenetic– Growth improvement– Sex determinism– Relation genome - reproductive biology - growth– Relation strain - growth