Dear Aquaculture Extension Colleagues,

Emerging Issues is a special session the USDA-NOAA National Aquaculture Extension Steering Committee organizes for Aquaculture America and triennial meetings.  The committee is interested in coordinating one of these sessions for the upcoming Aquaculture America 2008 conference to be held February 9 -12, 2008 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.  The session is typically scheduled on the afternoon of the first day of registration and is intended to provide in-depth coverage of several issues having a high priority within the aquaculture extension community and our clientele.

The committee requests your input on what you wish to see covered in the 2008 Emerging Issues session.  Please rank order the listed topics to reflect your interest in the topic being covered in the Emerging Issues session. There are 12 topics, rank each topic with 1 being the highest priority and 12 being the lowest priority.  Click the link to the left to enter the survey. It should only take a few minutes to complete. Your participation is greatly appreciated and we urge you to complete the survey no later than July 31. We will tally the responses and proceed to organize this session based on your input.

Thank you for your insights and we look forward to seeing you at Aquaculture America 2008 in Orlando. 

Committee Members:

Dave Cline

Gary Fornshell

Tessa Getchis

Paul Olin

Jim Steeby

Nathan Stone

Jim Szyper

Laura Tiu

Don Webster

Ex-officio – Gary Jensen, Andy Lazur, Max Mayeaux and Jim Murray