渔业和水产养殖技术文凭

温哥华岛大学与加拿大渔业和海洋部的紧密联系和关系使“渔业和水产养殖技术”计划发展成为同类中最好的计划之一。学生会从领先的水产养殖专家，渔业官员和海洋生物学家那里获得专家指导，并参加动手实践经验，并在现场进行了超过四分之一的培训。有许多专门针对渔业和水产养殖专业学生的特别奖项，价值从300到2500不等。该计划旨在培养具有广泛背景的技术人员，他们具有鱼类和无脊椎动物文化，渔业栖息地和鱼类种群评估，野生种群管理，业务管理以及环境控制和规划的实践和学术技能的广泛背景。
The program is designed to develop well-rounded technologists with a broad background in the practical and academic skills of fish and invertebrate culture, fisheries habitat and fish stock assessment, wild stock management, and environmental control and planning. The first year provides a foundation in such basic conceptual areas as statistics, biology, English, habitats of fish and fish rearing methods. There is a weekly practicum, in which students are sent into the field for a day to work in various aquacultural or fisheries facilities (salmonid hatcheries, spawning channels, wild fish projects, oyster farms, invertebrate hatcheries and others), and students also work one half day each week on aquaculture or fisheries field projects on campus or in the field. Many courses also involve significant field experience. Over the two years this practical work experience exposes students to a wide variety of activities, and introduces them to the facilities, organizations and personnel important in their future careers.