The Fisheries & Aquaculture program gives students a hands-on experience raising salmon, trout, arctic char, and diverse fisheries management field experiences. Students work in one of the largest and most diverse academic aquaculture facilities in the Northeast, including a 40,000 gallon coldwater hatchery, quarantine hatchery, warm water fish hatchery and earthen grow out ponds.

Aquaculture is the fastest growing segment of the agriculture industry. This rapidly changing and expanding field is on the cutting edge of technology today.

With the demand of food fishes on the rise, aquaculture provides quality fish for public consumption, while at the same time reducing over-fishing of the native species found in our country's rivers, lakes, and oceans. As a result, a demand has been created for technicians skilled in operating fish hatcheries and biologists trained in fisheries resource management. SUNY Cobleskill's Bachelor of Technology degree program with a Fisheries and Aquaculture sequence in Fisheries and Aquaculture is designed to meet that need.

The Bachelor of Technology degree enrolls freshman directly from high school and transfer students from diverse college backgrounds.

Students go on marine field trips to SUNY Stony Brook's Marine Sciences research center and rocky coast trip to Cape Ann Massachusetts. Students perform a 15-credit, 600-hr internship in fisheries, aquaculture or aquatic science for the completion of their BT degree. Please contact Dr. John Foster at (518) 255-5243 or email at fosterjr@cobleskill.edu