Fishery
Study
Study in the doctoral study programme is based on the individual study plan. The departmental board usually orders a student to attend to 7 subjects on offer, based on the focus of the student's dissertation and the recommendation of the admissions committee. The tutor and the student can add up to 2 additional subjects.
All the students take exams in English (FCE, TOFEL - min 90 points, or IELTS - min 5,5 points).
International experience
The PhD student shall spend at least three months in a foreign department as an educational stay during the studies.
The student must participate in the international conference.
Professional practice
Every student shall actively participate in operational works on experimental faculty facilities. In the first year, the student has to undergo short-term educational stays in the hatchery, model experimental facility, experimental pond station to the total extent of 20 working days. Each student has to undergo at least three short-term (for 5 - 10 workdays) educational stays in various workplaces mentioned above
For professional practice in Experimental Fish Culture Facility 7-8 days (Vodňany), please contact: Dipl.-Ing. Pavel Lepič, Ph.D.
For professional practice in Genetic Fisheries Center 7-8 days (Vodňany), please contact Dipl.-Ing. David Gela, Ph.D.
For professional practice at fish culture facilities, in a fish processing facility or a fish shop five days (Č. Budějovice), please contact Lucie Rybová -
Each student of the first or second grade is obliged in each term to participate in at least two fishing out of a pond greater than 1 ha.
Teaching
An individual study plan must also include at least 90 hours of pedagogic activities in the relevant field during the entire period of study.
Each student of the third and fourth grade is obliged to manage projects at summer schools.
Each student shall assist as a consultant of at least one bachelor, master or dissertation thesis during the study.
Dissertation
A doctoral student at the Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters (hereafter student) systematically works on the topic of his/her dissertation (hereafter DW) under the supervision of the supervisor (s) and consultant for the entire study period (1. - 4. year).
At the beginning of their studies, students elaborate a literature review to the subject of their dissertation in English (SS 1st year of study).
Every year until PhD thesis defense student shall present his/her progress and dissertation results in the seminar (1. - 4. year).
The student has to publish as a first author at least two articles in peer-reviewed journals indexed on Web of Science. Of these, at least one of the articles must be in a journal that is in the first quartile in the area to which it belongs, orat least two articles must be in the journals that are worst in the third quartile (evaluated by the impact factor of the journal by WoS). ln case, the journal is included in multiple categories, the arithmetic mean of the location of the journal in quartiles across categories is decisive. The journal must meet this criterion at least once in the last three years before the manuscript is accepted. The articles must address and be part of the dissertation topic. One of the outputs may be an overview article. Students need to be guided and made every effort to publish a coherent part of their own results in the third year of study.
The student must participate in an international conference.
Summary table with duties for students in each year for study program Fishery is here.
1st year of study
literature review
profesional practice (20 workdays)
pond harvesting 1
2nd year of study
pond harvesting 2
3rd year of study
1st Summer school project
State Doctoral Exam (only for students enrolled before March 1, 2025)
4th year of study
2nd Summer school project
defence of dissertation
Students of the combined form of study have the same obligations within the study as students of the full-time form, except for:
- the obligation to participate in an internship abroad,
- regular seminars for doctoral students (obligation to present dissertation progress remains at least once a year),
- pedagogical and other educational activities and
- professional experience.
Elaborating a literature review
Supervisor
PhD practice 1 to 8
Supervisor
PhD seminars 1 to 4
Vice-dean for science and research - Assoc. Prof. Antonín Kouba, Ph.D.
Professional Practice 1, 2
Authorized person - Dipl.-Ing. David Gela, Ph.D.
Summer school 1, 2
Vice-dean for study affairs - Assoc. Prof. Martin Kocour, Ph.D.
Exams in specialized subjects
Examiner
Educational activities 1-X
Vice-dean for study affairs - Assoc. Prof. Martin Kocour, Ph.D.
Foreign internship 1-X
Vice-dean for foreign relations - Assoc. Prof. Martin Pšenička, Ph.D.
Publication 1-X
Vice-dean for science and research - Assoc. Prof. Antonín Kouba, Ph.D.
Presentation of results 1-X
Vice-dean for science and research - Assoc. Prof. Antonín Kouba, Ph.D.
Leading of thesis
Vice-dean for study affairs - Assoc. Prof. Martin Kocour, Ph.D.
List of supervisors here.
Ecology of Still and Running Waters
Examiner: Mgr. Otakar Strunecký, Ph.D.
Outdoor Aquaculture Systems
Examiner: Assoc. Prof. Vlastimil Stejskal, Ph.D.
Biology and Taxonomy of Fish Vertebrates
Examiner: RNDr. Jiří Peterka, Ph.D.
Toxicology Focused on Aquatic Organism
Examiner: dr hab. Josef Velíšek, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics
Examiner: Petr Císař, Ph.D.
Applied Cellular and Molecular Biology
Examiner: Assoc. Prof. Martin Pšenička, Ph.D.
Genetics in Fisheries
Examiner: Prof. Martin Flajšhans, Dr. rer. agr.
Physiology of Fish Reproduction
Examiner: Prof. Otomar Linhart, Ph.D.
Sustainable Fishery Management in Open Waters
Examiner: Prof. Tomáš Randák, Ph.D.
Breeding and Diseases of Crayfishes
Examiner: Prof. Pavel Kozák, Ph.D.
Diagnostics of Diseases of Aquaculture Animals
Examiner: MVDr. Veronika Piačková, Ph.D.
Fish Histology Applied in Aquaculture
Examiner: MVDr. Eliška Zusková, Ph.D.
Alternative Aquaculture Systems
Examiner: Assoc. Prof. Jan Mráz, Ph.D.
Fish Nutrition
Examiner: Assoc. Prof. Jan Mráz, Ph.D.
Fish as a Food
Examiner: Assoc. Prof. Jan Mráz, Ph.D.
Species Diversification of Aquaculture
Examiner: Prof. Tomáš Policar, Ph.D.
Technics and Engeneering of Recirculating Aquaculture Systems
Examiner: Prof. Tomáš Policar, Ph.D.
Immunology in Aquaculture
Examiner: Mgr. Tomáš Korytář, Ph.D.
Basics of Scientific Communications
Examiner: Assoc. Prof. Borys Dzyuba, Ph.D.
Departmental Board Chairman
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Martin Pšenička, Ph.D.
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Departmental Board member
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Tomáš Policar, Ph.D.
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Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Jan Mráz, Ph.D.
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Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Martin Kocour, Ph.D.
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Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Pavel Kozák, Ph.D.
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Prof. RNDr. Jan Kubečka, CSc.
BC AS CR, Institute of Hydrobiology
Na sádkách 7
370 05, České Budějovice
Assoc. Prof. Radka Symonová, Ph.D.
BC AS CR, Institute of Hydrobiology
Na sádkách 7
370 05, České Budějovice
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Pavel Horký, Ph.D.
ČZU
Kamýcká 129
165 00, Praha-Suchdol
RNDr. Pavel Jurajda, Ph.D.
Ústav biologie obratlovců AV ČR
Květná 8
603 65, Brno
