The 2022 Great Lakes Aquaculture Days in-person event in New York State engaged participants in a fish health workshop at the Cornell University School of Veterinary Medicine. Credit: Emma Forbes/NYSG New York
Contact:
Barry Udelson, NYSG Aquaculture Specialist, E: bu25@cornell.edu, P: (631) 632-8730
NYSG is engaging stakeholders with educational and experiential learning opportunities through its participation in the Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative
Stony Brook, NY, March 23, 2023 - A Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative (GLAC) was created to address barriers to industry growth in the freshwater region that spans eight states. One of the goals of the group was to host an annual event, known as “Great Lakes Aquaculture Days,” to engage stakeholders. Feedback on how to better address the needs of the aquaculture industry from the first two such events in 2020 and 2021 identified fish health as a recurring theme.
New York Sea Grant (NYSG) helped develop the 2022 Great Lakes Aquaculture Days as a hybrid two-day workshop with a focus on fish health. The first day was held virtually; the second day took place simultaneously with in-person locations in each Great Lakes state.
On October 27, 2022, more than 100 participants “attended” the first day’s online event. On the second day, NYSG hosted 17 people at an in-person event at Cornell University. Participants included New York-based fish farmers, Cornell graduate students, and researchers. The day included the opportunity to conduct a fish necropsy, providing farmers with a unique way to learn and understand fish biology. The hands-on experience provided a look at healthy fish organs and at signs that may indicate fish are sick. The program included a lecture (University of Mississippi) on fish therapeutics, a NYSG overview of GLAC objectives and activities for promoting the development of coastal and inland aquaculture, and open discussion with Cornell University fish health specialists, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s fish pathologist, and NYSG aquaculture and fisheries extension specialists.
The knowledge, experience, and networking opportunities provided by Great Lakes Aquaculture Days fosters the growth of NY’s aquaculture industry.
Partners:
• Cornell University
• GLAC: New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois-Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania Sea Grants (Great Lakes); Lake Champlain Sea Grant, North Central Regional Aquaculture Center
More Info: New York Sea Grant
New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University
and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based
programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
National Sea Grant College Program.
Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated
research, education and extension services promoting coastal community
economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness
and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.
Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists
and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based
information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries,
federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers,
educators, the media and the interested public.
The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY
Buffalo, SUNY Oswego and the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office
in Newark. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook
University in Long Island, Brooklyn College and Cornell Cooperative
Extension in NYC and Kingston in the Hudson Valley.
For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly.
