BOWLING GREEN - Fish farmers and hatcheries interested in fingerling production, growing baitfish or preserving or reintroducing fish species requiring live first feeds may learn more about production methods at a Live Feeds and Hatchery Techniques Workshop.
The workshop, sponsored by Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development at Ohio State University South Centers at Piketon, is to take place at 9 a.m. Dec. 4 at the Bowling Green Aquaculture Center, 13737 Middleton Pike, Bowling Green. Cost is $75 per person.
Agenda topics are to include phytoplankton culture methods and equipment, commercially available algal pastes, rotifer culture methods and equipment, hatchery management, water quality testing and monitoring and a tour of the facility.
Speakers are to include Shawn McWhorter, manager of the Bowling Green Aquaculture Center and Eric Henry, research scientist and process engineer of Reed Mariculture.
For more information, call (419) 823-1807 or e-mail mcwhorter.31@
osu.edu. To register, contact Julie Strawser-Moose at (740) 289-2071, ext. 223, or e-mail strawser-moose.1@osu.edu.
