Organic Aquaculture: Present Challenges, Future Opportunities
Aquaculture America 2009
8:30 – 12:30, Tuesday, 17th February 2009
Washington State Convention Center, Room 607
Chair: Richard Nelson
Twenty minute presentation(s) followed directly by ten minute Q & A.
8:30 George Lockwood Aquaculture Working Group Advisory to NOSB/NOP
Industry Update on National Organic Standards Board Recommendations
9:00 Shannon Nally USDA-AMS-NOP (subject to last minute cancellation)
Rulemaking Process for Aquatic Animals in the National Organic Program
9:30 Brad Hicks Pacific Organic Seafood Association
An International Organic Industry Perspective on NOSB Recommendatons for Fish Meal/Oil, plus Comments on Proposed Net Pen/Cage Culture Regulations
10:00 Break
10:30 Sebastian Belle Maine Aquaculture Association
Industry Perspective on NOSB Recommendations for Atlantic Salmon, Cod and Other Atlantic Coast Aquaculture
11:00 Israel Snir Regal Springs Tilapia
An International Organic Industry Perspective on the Opportunity for Net Pen Culture of Tilapia and Potential for Fish meal Production from Certified- Organic Fish Farms
11:30 Delbert Gatlin TX A&M / Plant Proteins in Aquaculture Working Group
Plant Proteins in Aquaculture: Research Agendas That Could Help the Organic Program
12:00 John Less Archer Daniels Midland Company Specialty Feed Ingredients
Natural Astaxanthin: A Candidate for Utilization in Organic Aquaculture
