Virginia Seafood faculty and staff in attendance at Aquaculture America 2021. From left to right: Charles Clark, Fernando Gonçalves, Noah Boldt, Carole Engle, Jonathan van Senten, Michael Schwarz, and Keri Rouse.
VS faculty and staff in attendance at Aquaculture America 2021. From left to right: Charles Clark, Fernando Gonçalves, Noah Boldt, Carole Engle, Jonathan van Senten, Michael Schwarz, and Keri Rouse.
Farmers typically rely on continuously pumping coastal water for use in tanks where oyster larvae are grown. But this standard way of raising oyster seed has farms hinging on a highly variable resource—the water from rivers, estuaries, bays, and oceans, explains Michael Schwarz, director at the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center of Virginia Tech.
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Schwarz was among other researchers, farmers, and industry leaders who convened in San Antonio for the United States Aquaculture Society's Aquaculture America 2021 conference this August.
In his presentation, Schwarz described the Extension center's ongoing research with partners from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Eastern Shore Lab, Virginia Sea Grant, and Oyster Seed Holdings, LLC to develop a system to clean and reuse oyster hatchery water, removing the variability of coastal water quality from the equation.
With more conference presentations exploring various facets of aquaculture—from adapting business strategies in the wake of the pandemic to assessing the economic impact of seafood supply chains—the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center had a strong presence at this year's conference with seven faculty and staff in attendance.
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The US-centric event is the largest aquaculture trade show in the Western Hemisphere and the only major national aquaculture conference held in the US. Rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference ran from August 11-14 with over a thousand presenters, attendees, and trade show vendors to draw together experts at the helm of the aquaculture industry.
Jonathan van Senten presents on Marketing Strategies for Economic Shocks at Aquaculture America 2021 conference. Photo by Keri Rouse for Virginia Tech VS.
In a session chaired by Jonathan van Senten, assistant director at the Virginia Seafood and assistant professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, presentations focused on resiliency strategies for aquaculture farmers at a time when many are still recovering from impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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One significant impact of the pandemic was the disruption of supply chains, explained van Senten. Many seafood producers had to adjust their strategies to sell their products when faced with a sudden drop in revenue from food service, a primary source of income for many aquaculture businesses.
He hopes that the lessons learned as a result of the shock of the last two years are carried forward to respond to the next crisis.
All talks from the Farming in the Time of a Pandemic: Impacts, Response, and Planning session will soon be available online as a resource to the aquaculture industry.Every three years, the Triennial is held somewhere in the United States. In 2022, the Triennial returns to sunny San Diego – one of America’s favorite cities.
Aquaculture America 2022 In San Diego
THE TRIENNIAL IS THE LARGEST AQUACULTURE MEETING IN THE WORLD! The Triennial is the largest aquaculture conference and tradeshow held in the world with nearly 4, 000 attendees from over 90 countries and even more countries are expected to have attendees at AQUACULTURE 2022. The Triennial combines the annual meetings of the Fish Culture Section of the American Fisheries Society, World Aquaculture Society, National Shellfisheries Association, and the National Aquaculture Association. In addition to the annual meetings of the main sponsors, look what else is happening at AQUACULTURE 2022!
The last Triennial held in 2019 in New Orleans where it pronounced a huge success by over 3, 000 people who attended. Don’t miss this Triennial!
Rosamond (Roz) Naylor is the William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, Professor (by courtesy) in Economics, and founding Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University. She received her PhD from Stanford University in applied economics, her MSc in economics from the London School of Economics, and her dual BA degrees in economics and environmental science from the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on policies and practices to improve global food security and protect the environment on land and at sea. She has been involved in many field-level research projects around the world with her students and has published widely on issues related to aquaculture, global food systems, and food policy. She currently co-chairs The Blue Food Assessment, an international initiative aimed at providing a comprehensive scientific evaluation of the sustainability, nutrition, equity, and justice dimensions of aquatic foods cultured and captured in freshwater and marine environments within the global food system. She is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, a Pew Marine Fellow, and a Leopold Leadership Fellow. She is the President of the Board of Directors for Aspen Global Change Institute, a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Oceana, and a member of the Forest Protection Advisory Panel for Cargill. At Stanford, Naylor teaches courses on the World Food Economy, Human Society and Environmental Change, and Food and Security.The greater role of producers in aquaculture conferences is a major influence in the changing character of American aquaculture conferences, says columnist
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Change is inevitable; however, evaluating the pros and cons of changes often depends on the perspective of the individual who assesses the benefits versus the costs and problems created by the changes. Some people embrace change and point out the fact that without change there is no progress. On the other hand, many people find change to be very uncomfortable and agree with the 95-year-old North Woods codger who had been asked about the changes he had seen over the years: “Yep, I’ve seen a lot a changes in my lifetime and I been against every one of them.”
I have attended aquaculture conferences for roughly 40 years and seen substantial changes in the number of attendees, the content of the technical presentations, and the nature of the trade shows. Most of the changes can be, in my opinion, considered to be progress, but a few have been problematic for me. As I and other members of the aquaculture community look forward to Aquaculture America 2020 in Honolulu, we can expect relatively few changes, other than some focus on Hawaiian culture and aquaculture, from the last Aquaculture America conference in Las Vegas. Viewed in a longer perspective, a comparison with the Aquaculture ‘95 Triennial Conference in San Diego shows substantial changes have occurred in the aquaculture conferences held in the United States.
Looking back In the 1980s and early 1990s fish farming organizations, such as Trout Farmers, or Catfish Farmers, or Shellfisheries held annual meetings for their members and selected guests from government and/or academia. The Fish Culture Section of the American Fisheries Society, and the World Mariculture Society (forerunner to the World Aquaculture Society) held conferences that stretched across multiple species and aquaculture issues, and were attended primarily by academicians and government workers connected to state and federal fish hatcheries. Very few private sector fish farmers attended these science and technology focused conferences. The need for conferences that brought producers, researchers, regulators, and government officials together to hear presentations and discuss matters of common interest was recognized, but progress toward such conferences was slow. Perhaps Dr Nick Parker’s visionary concept of an “Intergalactic Aquaculture Conference” in which all aquaculture organizations would participate every third year provided the impetus for conferences designed to bring together the various interest groups. The conferences now known as “The Triennial” started to take shape in the 1980s through cooperative efforts by the World Aquaculture Society, the National Shellfisheries Association, and the Fish Culture Section of the American Fisheries Society. Species-focused producer organizations and their associated partners, such as the Aquaculture Suppliers Association, were starting to become involved, but were still largely peripheral.
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By 1995 the National Aquaculture Association (NAA) was established to provide a voice for all forms of private sector commercial aquaculture. Joe McCraren, an old colleague and friend of mine, was the executive director. As the chair for Aquaculture ‘95, I presided over the first aquaculture conference held in San Diego. Joe and I, with the cooperation of Dr Sandra Shumway (NSA), Dr Joe Tomasso (WAS) and the conference management skills of John Cooksey, newly hired at that time as conference manager, saw an opportunity to bring the vision of Nick Parker to fruition. We would organize a conference that addressed the interests and issues of producers, academicians, government officials, industry suppliers, and state/federal hatchery personnel in one major conference. Approximately 4, 000 attendees supported the concept. The program focused on the broad, across-the-board topics of current interest to fish farmers and their academic and government colleagues. Hosted by the California Aquaculture Association, the 1995 Triennial was a rousing success.
A guiding principle for the program of the 1995 Triennial was a limit on the number of concurrent sessions to no more than eight sessions per time slot. Topics for sessions largely reflected the interests of managers of state and federal fish hatcheries and academic researchers influenced by the needs of those hatcheries.
In contrast, Aquaculture America 2020 will have up to 14 concurrent sessions. While the 1995 program was built
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