Master degree program
Fish Industry and Industrial Fishery

Fish Industry and Industrial Fishery

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Agricultural Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ON1 Demonstrates a high level of intellectual development, competent and developed speech in the native and foreign languages, a culture of thinking and skills of scientific organization of work, knowledge of current methodological and philosophical problems of natural sciences, as well as knowledge of psychology and pedagogy.
ON2 Is able to independently analyze the environmental problems of species conservation, protection, legislation and formation of aquatic biological resources, solve the problem of commercial ichthyology and perform field, laboratory biological studies to solve the problems of conservation of aquatic biological resources using the methods of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
ON3 Is able to use professional knowledge and skills in the processing of raw materials and the fishing industry, the management of hydrobiont fishing, with the use of methods of processing and reproduction of hydrobionts for the independent organization of production activities in the field of aquaculture and aquatic bioresources.
ON4 It is able to analyze the state of vegetation and aquatic invertebrates, assess the impact of higher aquatic plants on the biological productivity of the reservoir, using innovative methods in aquaculture and methods for determining the bio-productivity of aquatic invertebrates and higher aquatic plants.
ON5 It is able to normalize the economic activities of intensive aquaculture enterprises with the use of methods of environmental rationing, fisheries and environmental expertise; participates in the development of projects for the protection of aquatic bioresources, uses methods of environmental monitoring of reservoirs, and forecasts changes in the state of the environment.
ON6. Develops practical recommendations for commercial fishing of fish and other hydrobionts, based on the analysis of their population structure, uses methods for studying the dynamics of the population of hydrobionts, carries out work on the repair and installation of fishing gear, evaluates the economic efficiency, wear and durability of fishing gear, is able to organize
ON7 Is able to manage a fishery enterprise, implement a systematic approach to the organization of technological processes at fisheries enterprises, uses intensive and innovative technologies for growing valuable fish species, and owns the technology of primary processing of fish raw materials.
ON8 Assesses the epizootic, parasitological situation in natural and artificial reservoirs, organizes therapeutic and preventive measures in fish farms, using methods of ichthyopathology and sanitary standards of fisheries management.
ON9 Is able to apply the methods of studying the genotypic variability of hydrobionts using modern and traditional genetic methods of fish breeding and genetics, assesses the genetic processes in populations, uses cytological methods of studying heredity, identifies the features of hybridological (genetic) analysis
ON10 Capable of analytical thinking, logic, analysis, scientific substantiation and creative solution of current problems in the field of fisheries, analyzes the results of scientific research, applies them to solving specific research tasks in the field of science and education, independently carries out scientific research.
ON11 Is able to compile and execute scientific reports, publications, analytical reviews on professional activities, referees texts, independently plans his professional activities, is able to work in a team, conducts scientific research, sets priorities, and complies with the deadlines set for the completion of work.
ON12 Is able to carry out educational and methodological activities for undergraduate students, conduct laboratory and seminar classes, draw up a program of disciplines, develop educational and methodological complexes of disciplines.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Fish Industry and Industrial Fishery
Speciality Code
7M08401
Faculty
Biology and Biotechnology

disciplines

Biotechnology in Fish Industry
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course discusses modern methods and techniques for improving production processes in fish-breeding enterprises. A complete description of new technologies based on the use of scientific, technical and innovative developments is given. The economic aspects of problem solving are considered; examples of cost reduction and increase of economic profit at the fish-breeding enterprises of various types due to the introduction of high-tech methods of aquaculture are given.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Organization and planning of scientific research
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to formulate the topic, goals and objectives of scientific research; methodology of theoretical and experimental research; analysis of theoretical and experimental research and formulation of conclusions and proposals. Undergraduates will master innovative activities, techniques for implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of scientific research, as well as the rules for registration and protection of research results.

Parasitology of fish
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies various aspects of parasites, including their biology, life cycle, pathological effects on the host, diagnostic and treatment methods. During the study, morphological and molecular determination of parasites is carried out, as well as an assessment of their distribution and impact on fish populations.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Problems of rational use of aquatic biological resources of Kazakhstan
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - to consider the problems of rational use of water bioresources of Kazakhstan, which aims to solve the environmental and economic problems of water resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, to study the issues of fresh water, which is consumed by the population, are the same natural water bodies - rivers and lakes.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Taxonomic revision and comparative morphology of fish
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline studies important aspects of biological diversity and classification of fish species. Examines the issues of taxonomy, morphology, anatomy, genetics and ecological characteristics of fish for their accurate classification into taxa. This process makes it possible to clarify the structure of the taxonomic system and ensure its relevance taking into account new scientific data.

Theory and Practice of Fishing
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - to analyze the issues of industrial fishing and features of fishing in the open, coastal waters and inland waters, to study the technical means of ensuring fishing, the processes of scientific research, creation and operation of fishing systems, including the tools of fish and other hydrobionts, as well as processes of management of search and production of hydrobionts, regulation and inspection of fisheries.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Biological Productivity of Artificial Reservoires
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Discipline examines the concepts of biological productivity of artificial reservoirs, the main factors determining the productivity of artificial reservoirs, the concept of production and destruction, their ratio in reservoirs, primary and secondary production, and methods for their determination. Pollution of water bodies with toxic and biogenic substances, biological self-purification and water quality formation, ecological bases for the protection of the hydrosphere are considered.

Biological Productivity of Natural Reservoires
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Discipline considered the concepts of biological productivity of natural water bodies, the main factors determining the productivity of natural water bodies, the concept of production and destruction, their ratio in water bodies, primary and secondary production, and methods for their determination. We consider the pollution of water bodies, the biological self-purification of water, and the ecological bases for the protection of the hydrosphere.

Biotechnology of salmon breeding
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to acquaint students with the fish breeding and biological characteristics of the main and prospective objects of commercial salmon farming, to form and operate breeding stocks of commercial salmon farming objects, to study methods of obtaining germ products, insemination and caviar incubation, salmon embryogenesis, prelarva incubation, breeding of landing material, cultivation of commercial objecc tors.

Biotechnology of sturgeon breeding
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - to consider the main issues on the problems of development of sturgeon breeding in Kazakhstan, to study the basic biotechnical processes of sturgeon breeding, to determine the systematic position of fish species used in commercial sturgeon breeding, to give a detailed description of the biology and ecology of sturgeon fish.

Biotechnology of the cultivation of hydrobionts
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course considered biology of valuable commercial species of invertebrate aquatic organisms: crayfish, shrimp, mussels, shellfish. Provides information about distributions, classification of aquatic organisms, the current state of populations of valuable invertebrates aquatic organisms. The technological parameters of the main biotechnical processes of widely dispersed species of hydrobionts are studied. Types of industrial farms are considered, devices and adaptations, technical equipment on cultivation of food, fodder invertebrate hydrobionts are described in detail.

Ecological Expertise of Reservoires
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to study the biology and ecology of valuable commercial invertebrate hydrobionts species, distribution and current state of populations of valuable hydrobionts species, technological parameters of basic biotechnical processes of background hydrobionts species detailing devices and equipment, technical equipment for cultivation of food, food invertebrate hydrobionts.

Ecological Structure of Species and Populations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course deals the classification and types of hydrobiont populations, their ecological, statistical, dynamic and ethological structure, mechanisms of regulation of hydrobiont populations, types of population dynamics, as well as methods of modeling dynamic indicators depending on the nature and stability of ecosystems under the influence of various environmental factors.

Functional Regularities of Water Ecosystems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Сourse considered basic elements of the theory functioning of aquatic ecosystems: assessment of the structural organization of ecosystems and their components, seasonal and perennial biomass dynamics and their relationships with environmental factors, energy, matter and information flows and their relationship with water features, productivity, and environmental factors. Considers and assesses the stability, sustainability, endurance of aquatic ecosystems, the main characteristics of aquatic ecosystems and the patterns of their functioning.

Issues of Hybridisation of Objects of Acuaculture
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of holistic and systemic knowledge of the laws of inheritance of traits, types of inheritance, understanding of the mechanisms of storage, reproduction, transmission and implementation of genetic information at the level of biomolecules; properties and functions of nucleic acids and proteins, about modern molecular genetic research methods.

Patterns of Hydrobiontes' Development
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - to consider the issues of patterns of embryonic and post-embryonic development of hydrobionts, factors affecting the growth and development of hydrobionts, features of fetal development, individual directions of primary germ cells, gametogenesis, the sexual cycle of fish, types of fertilization and reproduction hydrobionts, spermatogenesis, ontogenesis stages, methods to determine the stages of embryonic and postembryonic periods in fish.

Protection of Fish Resources
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline deals with the rational use of fish resources; provides basic knowledge of the legal aspects of the protection and regulation of commercial fishing in the waters of the Republic. Studies the effectiveness of conservation measures on certain water bodies of fishery importance. Studies methods for calculating the extent of damage to fisheries or specific water as a result of intensive human activities and poachers.

The doctrine of the population
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course examines the ecological and genetic characteristics of the population, the main directions of studying natural populations, the population as a management unit, the concept of a minimum viable population, the ecological principles of exploitation of natural populations, the state of populations and prospects for further use, the effective population size, the reproduction of endangered species in captivity, introduction, successes introductions.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the research practice is acquaintance with the latest theoretical, methodological and technological achievements of domestic and foreign science, with modern methods of scientific research, processing and interpretation of experimental data. During the study of course, students should be competent in: - to understand the fundamental and applied research; - to understand the level of research, the stage of scientifically-research work - planning, organization and realization; - preparation, writing, representation and review of the project; - program research, methodological and procedural sections research; - systematize the base of scientific and technical information.

Data for 2021-2024 years