Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management

Wageningen University and Research

Overview

Key features

Oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes are major providers of ecosystem goods and services such as food, tourism and coastal protection. In many cases, exploitation levels have bypassed the carrying capacity of these ecosystems leading to devastating effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

Do you want to learn about innovative and sustainable solutions to preserve marine biodiversity and its ecosystem functions? Are you going to tackle these issues, using an integrative approach to marine ecosystem management? Then the Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management programme at the Wageningen University and Research is the master for you.

What makes the master's Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management unique?

• Combining natural sciences and social sciences to find integrative solutions

• A lot of personal contact between teachers and students, informal study culture

• Research institute IMARES is part of Wageningen University & Research. This makes it possible to provide unique training opportunities in the marine field.

• Internationally oriented programme

Future career - Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management

Alumni of the Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management degree from Wageningen University and Research have many job opportunities. National borders will not hold you back: everywhere you go in the Netherlands, throughout Europe or across the world you will encounter graduates from this programme. Below we highlight some of the most common job types. Also, a few of our alumni share their stories about their jobs.