Monthly Archives: June 2014

Silent Auction & Library

Silent Auction Adelaide

During the recent World Aquaculture Conference held in Adelaide we conducted a Silent Auction to raise funds for AwF. We had 11 items to auction, including:

• 3 framed photographs which were prize winners of the photograph competition run by International Aquafeed – thanks to the sponsors of the activity for their generosity in enabling us to have the photos.
• Diploma in Aquaculture
• Books
• Adelaide Crows indigenous football jumper and Conference polo shirts

Volunteers Update

We have 15 new volunteers who have registered since 18 May 2014 and we continue to build our list. Thank you to those who have made this commitment.

Our Volunteer Coordinators, Cormac and Ignacio, will be in touch with you very soon. In the meantime, you will be pleased to know that we are expecting a large number of opportunities for volunteers to contribute in the very near future.

Kevin Fitzsimmons, previous AwF President, is currently in Bangladesh developing volunteer projects and in the following weeks he will be Myanmar and Nepal. 

Aquaculture & Forests

In a recent study published in Nature Communications it has been suggested that deforestation is reducing the amount of leaf litter falling into rivers and lakes, resulting in less food being available to fish.

Lead author Andrew Tanentzap from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences said “We found fish that had almost 70% of their biomass made from carbon that came from trees and leaves instead of aquatic food chain sources.  While plankton raised on algal carbon is more nutritious, organic carbon from trees washed into lakes is a hugely important food source for freshwater fish, bolstering their diet to ensure good size and strength.”

Dr Tanentzap observed: “Where you have more dissolved forest matter you have more bacteria, more bacteria equals more zooplankton.  Areas with the most zooplankton had the largest, fattest fish.”

Creating & Nurturing AwF for Growth

Aquaculture without Frontiers is pleased to announce its program for World Aquaculture Adelaide 2014 (WAA14) which will be taking place at the new Adelaide Convention Centre between 7 & 11 June 2014.

A Silent Auction will be held during the period of the WAA14 Trade Show and that will be our main focus for promotion and fund raising during the event. AwF volunteers will be encouraging people and companies to bid on a range of products, services and vouchers which will be detailed just prior to the event.

Arid Land Aquaculture-Coahuila

The session, Development, Welfare and Poverty Alleviation (AwF), has been sponsored by World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Premier Sponsor, Tyson Foods Inc., one of the world’s largest food suppliers as well as a leader in hunger and disaster relief. It will be held on Wednesday 11 June from 11.10am in Room 6 and will conclude with a meeting session before the ‘Goodbye Adelaide’ event at 5.30pm.