{"id":3218,"date":"2014-08-22T02:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fikp.unhas.ac.id\/?p=648"},"modified":"2014-08-22T02:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T02:42:38","slug":"unit-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fikp.unhas.ac.id\/en\/unit-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquarium Units"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ornamental<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Marine Aquarium<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u00a0FACULTY OF MARINE SCIENCES AND FISHERY<\/p>\n

\"Aqua1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Indonesia<\/strong> is a tropical country with atropical climate which has highly\u00a0 potential\u00a0 fish\u00a0 resources.\u00a0 \u00a0 One\u00a0 \u00a0of\u00a0 the highly\u00a0 potential\u00a0 fish resources is ornamental fishes,\u00a0 not\u00a0 only fresh water but also marine ornament fishes. There are at least\u00a0 240 species of marine\u00a0 ornamental fishes\u00a0 and\u00a0 226 fresh water ornamental fish In the\u00a0 ornamental marine aquarium fishes\u00a0 are very popular in the international market, especially in the USA, Erope,\u00a0 \u00a0and Japan. Diversity of\u00a0 ornamental fishes in Indonesian waters is high. Unfortunately, there are many species close to extiction due to over exploitation by unfriendly fishing suchas using cyanide and bombing.\u00a0 On the other hand, there is a high\u00a0 demand of ornamental fishes for other\u00a0 purposes suchas\u00a0 Chinese traditional medicine whiche specially uses sea\u00a0 horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Aqua2\"<\/td>\n\"Aqua3\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Aquarium\u00a0<\/strong>unit\u00a0<\/strong>is one of the supporting facilities for education and enterpreneurship which focuses on ornamental\u00a0 fishes. This unit\u00a0 was \u00a0established in March 2014 and located at the Faculty of Marine Science and Fisheries. This unit supports students practicum, research for student for all degrees (S1, S2 and S3) and lecturer research. It also supports are search from other researcher sout side Hasanuddin University. This unit is also used as\u00a0 anedutainment \u00a0for students (elementary to high school students) and the community who are in terested in knowing more about ornamental fishes. \u00a0Ornamental fish stock aquarium maintenance services is also provide \u00a0in this unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Aqua4\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"Aqua5\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In the future<\/strong>, \u00a0the \u00a0Aquarium \u00a0Unit will develop research activities which focuses on breeding and rearing several ornamental fishes which has high economic value. Development of breeding and rearing ornamental fishes to increase the economic value offishes willbe collaborated with the Marine Station Unit, Hatchery and Mini Recirculation Unit and also with private sectors. The expected outcome of the research for the breeding and rearing of ornamental fishes are:<\/p>\n