Marine Recreational Management (SL21303)
This course introduces students to the knowledge and skills they need to choose and manage marine recreational activities effectively. Objectives include explaining selection and efficient management, demonstrating leadership and teamwork, and creating an innovative business plan for success and sustainability in the marine recreational industry.

This is an elective course.

This course aims to :

Introduce economically important seaweed species and their biology.

Highlight the abundance of seaweed species in Malaysia and its potentials.

Teach some basic culture techniques, and an understanding of the challenges and problems in the seaweed industry.

Lectures will focus on the fundamentals of phycology and introduction of varieties of economically important seaweed species that are being cultivated around the world. An in-depth preview of seaweed diversity in Malaysia with emphasis on the availability of seaweed resources as a lucrative seaweed-based industry will be given. Selected topics on seaweed variety, distribution and the biological features of local seaweeds; seaweed culture practices and state-of-the-art protoplast generation techniques; harvesting, seaweed diseases and post-harvest practices; extraction of commercially important carrageenan and the problems faced in this industry will be discussed.