20 March 2012 Table of Activities at AA12 Date Event Where How Saturday April 28 Recrculation Workshop NMIT Booking required Sunday April 29 Recirculation Workshop NMIT Booking required Monday April 30 All Day Tour – Inland Aquaculture Alexandra, Snobbs Creek Booking required Tuesdat May 1 Exhibition - IN MCEC Exhibitors Seafood Emergency Response Plan MCEC Invite only Workshop Australian Aquaculture Committee MCEC Invite only (sub-comm AFMF) Welcome reception MCEC Booking required Wednesday May 2 AA12 Conference – Day one Booking required Articulture – Awards Networking night NGV Booking required GAA GOAL Breakfast MCEC Invite only Thursday May 3 AA12 Conference – Day two MCEC Booking required Friday May 4 AA12 Conference – Day three MCEC Booking required Exhibtion – OUT (pm) MCEC Exhibitors Footy or Rugger Etihad or AAMI Invited or self Saturday May 5 AquaEd NMIT Booking required All Day Tour – Marine Aquaculture Portarligton, Queenscliff Booking required Sunday May 6 AquaEd NMIT Booking required nication experts and will focus on food security with Julian Cribb, and how the industry will need to adapt with Paul McCarthy. This will be followed on the third day with the Seafood CRC bringing focus to two widely disparate but vitally important areas of research. This first will focus on technology by describing the role that the incredibly rapidly evolving molecular sciences and genomics will play on the future of aquaculture. The second plenary will focus on opportunities in seafood marketing. An Australasian Aquaculture event without Tom Losordo running an expert Recirculation Workshop (28-29 April) would not meet expectations. Clearly, from the interest being shown, the demand for such information is greater than ever. The organizers have encouraged Seafood Services Australia to arrange the Seafood Incident Response Workshop on 1 May. This will be an interesting activity: a mock food safety crisis will be created and all people attending will be engaged in understanding how to manage such an event. For those interested in Training, Education and Workforce Development, an AquaEd event will be taking place after the conference on 5 and 6 May. The small extra fee for this includes coach transfers, lunch and dinner and will be an important event as we will have speakers from China, New Zealand, Texas, and Alaska, as well as from all around Australia, focusing minds on the key challenges in delivering appropriate education and training in aquaculture to meet the specific demands of an expanding industry. For the first time an Australasian Aquaculture event is being held mid-week to allow participants the chance to engage with Melbourne’s main events at this time of the year including football of all codes. Activities and how to get involved will be lodged on the website www.aquaculture.org. au. Of course, aside from the attractions of Melbourne itself, Victoria and Australia beyond offers numerous opportunities for tourists including wide-open spaces, fabulous wildlife, and multiple adventure options. This truly is a jampacked week so get in for the early-bird concessions as soon as you can and start thinking “Melbourne in May” and let this be the beginning of your own Ten-Year Plan. Notes: 1Roy Palmer has been involved the seafood industry since 1972. He has been engaged in the majority of Australasian Aquaculture events but took a greater involvement since 2008. He was Chairman of the 2010 event in Hobart, has played a strong role in the Melbourne event, and hopes to continue through to Adelaide. As WAS-APC Past President he is still very keen on developing the Chapter for the Society. His expertise lies in marketing, food safety, trade and training/education. Currently Roy has a number of roles within the industry and recently became the Australia/New Zealand Business Development Manager for the Global Aquaculture Alliance. 2Graham Mair has been involved in aquaculture and seafood research in the region for well over two decades and has lived and worked in Southeast Asian aquaculture for 16 of those years. He has been heavily involved with APC-WAS (having served as its President in 2007-2008) and WAS (as a Board member from 2008-2011) and has played significant roles in the organization of a number of successful regional conferences. Graham currently works as Program Manager for Production Innovation as part of the Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre (the Seafood CRC) and is thus actively engaged with a large part of the Australian aquaculture research community. The Seafood CRC is a major sponsor of Australasian Aquaculture 2012 including the coordination of a number of special sessions.
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