Monthly Archives: October 2014

Young Tasmanians Lead by Example

HVTTC Cert II Aqua students, Alister Smythe, Steve Harrison (Trainer), Emm Kelly, Jamie Bennett

The evening of the 22 October will go down in Aquaculture without Frontier’s (AwF) history as the starting point of its Australian organisation thanks heavily to the students and staff at the Huon Valley Trade Training Centre (HVTTC), especially Steve Harrison.

A full complement of fifty people attended the event and were treated to a fabulous range of Tasmanian seafood and beverages all donated generously by an array of companies – the who’s who of Tasmanian food and drink. We thank them all most sincerely.

Andrew Cowmeadow HVTTC Cert III Commercial Cookery student preparing Abtas abalone

From the outset this was going to be all about the students and they left no stone unturned in their efforts to ensure that the catering was top notch (under the watchful eye of first class local chefs) and that the main event of making people aware of AwF and its activities ran like clockwork.

EAS honours eminent aquaculture figure Michael New

Michael New, OBE, (right) was surprised and delighted to receive the Honorary Life Membership of the European Aquaculture Society from incoming EAS President Sachi Kaushik

At the opening session of its Aquaculture Europe 2014 event in Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain on October 14^th, the European Aquaculture Society (EAS[1]) gave its Honorary Life Membership Award to Michael New, for his long-term contribution to the development of aquaculture and the activities of the Society. AE2014 was attended by almost 1500 participants from 71 countries, making it the biggest Aquaculture Europe event to date.

Honorary Life Membership is the highest EAS award and is given to those persons that have had a marked impact on the development of European aquaculture.  Since 1981, EAS has bestowed this award on only 10 persons, including such names as Eric Edwards, Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis, Peter Hjul, Colin Nash and more recently, Courtney Hough, Pascal Divanach and Patrick Sorgeloos.

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[1] http://www.easonline.org/

AwF New Secretariat – Volunteers

Aquaculture without Frontiers is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Liew as Secretariat for the Volunteers Network.

Roy Palmer, President and Executive Director, AwF, said “We are absolutely delighted that Paul has offered his considerable skills to service our Volunteer Network. AwF has entered a new era and it is important, if we are to achieve the aims set out in our Strategic Plan, that we broaden our connections and horizons. We have a compelling story and a massive job ahead of us in achieving our goals so we must expand our base and create opportunities for people to engage. The work of our volunteers is paramount to the organisation so it is essential that we have good admin support.”