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Aquaculture
Education
Education is an important component of the Massachusetts
Aquaculture Development plan. Aquaculture education, in academic settings
as well as public forums, cultivates industry development by generating
appropriately targeted research, encouraging workforce development,
promoting public awareness and cultivating potential aqua-prenuers.
In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where public and municipal entities
often have bearing over aquaculture project development, public awareness
is especially critical toward aquaculture development.
With the importance of education in mind, a number of efforts have been undertaken to promote academic and public education opportunities. These efforts have been facilitated by a number of cooperative relationships that have enable strong collaboration and the sharing of resources. Work with the Massachusetts Aquaculture Centers Network (SEMAC, NEMAC and WMCSA) has generated a number of informative workshops. Work with the New England Board of Higher Education project AQUA (NEBHE) has generated a number of educational materials including Recirculating Aquaculture Set-up and Chronology Assistance Letters (RASCALs), and Explorations in Aquaculture Volumes I and II, Marine resources for the classroom and Freshwater resources for the classroom respectively (NEBHE AQUA Publications). These efforts also lead to the development of the Aquaculture Curricula Resource Guide (Chris, add hyperlink to file Guide fnl1.pdf) that was supported in part by the Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center (NRAC) through Grant No. 98-7 subcontract/account no. 556507 from the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. As part of our educational efforts we have also developed
a number of power point presentations for a variety of audiences and
grade levels. For scheduling of presentations please contact the Aquaculture
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