Practical Aquaculture Training Across the Full Value Chain
TCoE’s training model closes this skills gap. We combine classroom learning, pond-side demonstrations, cage-side coaching, hatchery exposure, laboratory learning and on-farm follow-up — practical, repeatable and directly useful to farmers and professionals.
Full value-chain curriculum
Broodstock & genetics management
Hatchery operation
Nursery & fingerling production
Juvenile & grow-out production
Feeds, nutrition & feed management
Fish health & biosecurity
Harvest, processing & food safety
Sales, marketing & market access
Fish farm economics & business
Hands-on across every method
Earthen & lined ponds
Pond design, preparation, fertilisation, liming, water management and semi-intensive production.
Cage culture
Lake Kariba-relevant cage siting, mooring, net management, stocking, feeding and monitoring.
Recirculating systems (RAS)
Filtration, biofilters, oxygenation, water treatment and biosecure intensive production and nurseries.
Biofloc systems
Floc development, carbon–nitrogen management, aeration and water-efficient intensive culture.
In-pond raceways & tanks
Raceway and tank management, water movement, waste capture and high-control production.
Integrated & aquaponics
Integrated agriculture-aquaculture and aquaponics for water reuse and diversified output.
Designed for the learner
Smallholder & emerging farmers
Commercial farm & hatchery teams
Extension officers & trainer-of-trainers
Students & early-career professionals
Investors, entrepreneurs & managers
Institutions & development programmes
The planned TCoE campus will include lecture rooms, practical training facilities, demonstration systems, hatchery learning areas, laboratories and accommodation to support residential and field-based training..