A three-day excursion was conducted on 2-4 November 2022 with 1st year students of the follow-up master’s degree in courses dealing with intensive aquaculture and pond aquaculture. A total of 15 different facilities, organizations and locations in CZ and SK were visited. These included different types of facilities: ponds, fish hatcheries, aquaponics, RAS, public aquariums and exhibitions, trout farms, fish processing plants, fish stores, etc. The program included a tasting of fish specialties and products.
Six facilities were visited in Slovakia: Family trout farm "Krásňanské rybníky" near Žilina, Fisheries Kamenný potok - Vrútky (fish sales, fish processing plant, fish hatchery, RAS), MO SRZ Martin with breeding of the Danube salmon, fish ladder on the river Turiec in Martin with a lecture on monitoring of the fish ladder, PetraAqua company in Turčianske Teplice with a hall for aquarium fish breeding and the largest farm for the production of African catfish in Handlová.
The realization of the excursion was financially supported by faculty resources for teaching. We thank the faculty management for their support!
Ing. Ján Regenda, Ph.D.
