NY Sea Grant is hosting Aquaculture and Seafood Office hours with various NY State Agencies involved in the regulation of aquaculture and seafood.
Office hours will be held virtual and are free to participants, but registration is required. You can include questions you have for any of the agencies participating when registering.
The first "office hours", scheduled for January 31, 2025, will focus on "Meet your State Partners: Agencies involved in Aquatic Foods Regulation" — Register | Flyer
Purpose
To enhance and facilitate active communication among academic, agency, and industry professionals related to aquatic foods and aquatic foods regulation and safety. Aquatic foods include all farmed and wild-caught finfish, shellfish, and seaweed.
Goals
1. Create a platform for regular interaction and communication among industry, agency, and academics who play a role in aquatic food safety.
2. Provide an opportunity for industry to engage with experts annually to address issues or challenges they face related to the processing and marketing of aquatic foods.
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, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office
in Newark, and in Watertown. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook
University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, in Queens, at Brooklyn College, with Cornell Cooperative
Extension in NYC, in Bronx, with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County in Kingston, and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester County in Elmsford.
For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has Facebook, Twitter/X, 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.
