1. OUR STAY IN FRANCE

2. JOURNEY FROM COLLEGE OF FISHERIES PANTNAGAR TO LEGTPA LOUIS PASTEUR LA CANOURGUE

3. FRANCE INDIA FOOD CULTURE

4. FRANCE INDIA FARMING CLIMATE

5. CONTENT OF THE TRAINING 1 st week: Integration week. Visit of the facilities, overview of the institution and fish farm. 2 nd week: Working together in the fish farm. 3 rd week: Study tour to oyster farms (Sete). 4 th & 5 th week: Holidays with French students in Montpellier and Perpignan. 6 th & 7th week: Split Training. - Full week on the fish farm + Managing the fish farm in weekend for one student. - Working with French students, RAS Management and preparing the report.

6. OUR WORK IN FISH FARM Cleaning: - hatchery - water inlets - circular tanks - raceways Feeding: - hatchery - circular tanks - raceways - photoperiod

7. OUR WORK IN FISH FARM Collecting the dead fishes in all the tanks and cleaning them. Taking average weight of all the fishes once in a week. Loading fish if required Inspecting the whole farm at the end of the day.

8. TECHNIQUES USED HERE ARE DIFFERENT FROM INDIA RACEWAYEARTHEN PONDS FISH CULTURE METHOD

9. TECHNIQUES USED HERE ARE DIFFERENT FROM INDIA FEEDING METHOD NETTING

10. SOME NEW THINGS WE OBSERVED IN THE FISH FARM WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR FISH FARM DISINFECTIONGRADING INSTANT KILLER

11. STRIPPING OF TROUT First experience of stripping Rainbow trout. Lot of thanks to Benoit and Phillip who gave us a chance to strip the trout and fertilize eggs with sperm manually by our hands.

12. WORK IN RAS Working on Tilapia and some ornamental fishes like Guppy, Koi carp, Betta, Gara gotyla. Learning about Chlorella culture and Worm culture. Feeding fishes with pelleted feed and Artemia naupli.

13. STUDY TOUR (SETE) Visiting Sete with Michel was the most important as we came to know about the method of Oyster and Mussel culture practiced in Europe. Working in oyster farm with the owner who culture oysters in the Etang de Thau.

14. HOLIDAYS IN FRANCE

15. ASSESMENT OF THE TRAINING Learning new techniques about fish culture. Doing things practically that we learnt only theoretically in India. Managing a fish farm. Working on processed fish and its packaging. Learning a foreign language. Interacting with different people. Developing confidence. Doing new things which we never did before. Getting new friends. Cooking French food. Having a different view about teacher student relationship. Life time experience.