(Port Angeles, WA) The Pacific Aquaculture Caucus is organizing the first-ever U.S. workshop to explore Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture on September 14-15, 2010, at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington. The workshop is limited to the first 150 registrants. The fee for the workshop is $25. For more information and to register, go to: www.pacaqua.org/events or  e-mail contacts below ( www site PayPal connection under construction)

Also known as IMTA, this evolving approach to seafood production emphasizes an ecosystem management approach where ‘fed’ species, such as finfish or shrimp, are farmed in close proximity to species that can ‘extract’ nutrients from the water column, such as shellfish and seaweed. The workshop will highlight findings from IMTA pilot projects in Kyuquot Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, B.C.; Hood Canal, Washington; San Antonio, Texas; and Sanggou Bay, China. The goal of the workshop is an improved understanding of IMTA by U.S. aquaculturists, academics, researchers, and environmental organizations.

The workshop will kick off with a full day of presentations and discussion on all aspects of IMTA from the current experts in this field on system design, candidate species, environmental monitoring and effects, economic sustainability, and social acceptance. Two key speakers will be Dr. Stephen Cross, Director of the Coastal Aquaculture Research and Training Network at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and Dr. Joao Ferreira of the Ecosystems Approach for Sustainable Aquaculture at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal.

In addition to the Pacific Aquaculture Caucus, sponsors include Peninsula College, the NOAA Aquaculture Program, and the Illinois Soybean Association.

Contacts:

Peter Becker Ph.D.

(360) 790-5770

Chairman@pacaqua.org

and,

Professor Jack Ganzhorn

(360)417-6493

JGanzhorn@pencol.edu

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Friday September 24th at the Radisson Gateway  SeaTac Airport Hotel (18118 International Boulevard, Seattle WA 98118), from 9 am to 3 pm, the National Aquaculture Association will present  a workshop: The 4 P’s of a Safe and Sustainable Aquaculture Industry: Practices, Presentation, Promotion and the Press; Saving Your Business And Your Markets.

The meeting is sponsored by the Pacific Aquaculture Caucus, Washington State Sea Grant and the Washington Fish Growers Association. For more details, contact: Pete Granger (pgranger@u.washington.edu, 206-685-9261) or Peter Becker (chairman@pacaqua.org, 360-790-5770).

NAA Workshop instructors include Dr. Andy Goodwin and Dr. Nathan Stone of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), Linda O’Dierno, NAA Outreach Specialist, Betsy Hart, NAA Executive Director, and will include a local industry speaker.

Following the NAA Session, The Washington Fish Growers Association will hold their Fall  Annual Group Meeting, reception and dinner.

A meeting agenda will be posted in early August at www.pacaqua.org/events and on the Washington Sea Grant www site.

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The Pacific Aquaculture Caucus Inc. (PACAQUA)  announces  the  Wiley Blackwell Publication of  The History of Aquaculture by Colin E. Nash Ph.D.  Copies available  in October 2010 through the  PACAQUA web site.

Table of Contents

1.   Fish and Shellfish as Food

2.  Seeds in Antiquity (2000 BC–500 AD)

3.  Subsistence Farming through the Middle Ages (500-1450)

4.  The Slow Dawn of Science (1450-1900)

5.  The Roots of Modern Aquaculture (1750-1880)

6.  Farming the Sea (1880-1920)

7.  Fifty Lost Years (1900-1950)

8.  Aquaculture in a World at War (1935-1945)

9.  Post-War Pioneering (1950-1970)

10.  Uncontrolled Expansion (1965-1975)

11.  The Rise of the Institutions (1970-1980)

12.  Building Global Capacity (1980-2000)

13.  Modern Times (twenty-first century)

This comprehensive book is fully illustrated with over 40 plates and 6 maps.

Author Colin E. Nash Ph.D.:

After earning his doctorate from the University of Leeds, Colin Nash served in a number of positions in the U.K., Hawaii, and the U.S.  Mr. Nash was Director of the Aquaculture Development and Coordination Program at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome during the 1980s, followed by four years as the technical director of Cofrepêche, an international firm in France specializing in coastal management issues. After his return to the United States in 1998, Mr. Nash joined the aquaculture group at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center’s Manchester Research Station near Seattle. For 10 years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the first aquaculture journal, Aquaculture. He has published a number of papers on aquaculture, including, most recently, Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment of Marine Fish Aquaculture (NOAA Technical Memo, December 2005) and Achieving Policy Objectives to Increase the Value of the Seafood Industry in the United States: The Technical Feasibility and Associated Constraints (Food Policy, December 2004). In 2005, Mr. Nash was made an Honorary Member of the European Aquaculture Society.

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PacAqua will have a session  at  the 2010 WAS: Yes We Can: Sustainable Aquaculture for America  in San Diego, CA, on Thursday March 4th  at 0830-1000.

Aquaculture 2010 Sessions Spreadsheet

Sessions by Day brochure

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