To: Seafood Community
The 59th Pacific Fisheries Technologists (PFT) will meet February 3-6,
2008 in San Francisco, California at the Hotel Whitcomb. The 2008 theme
of this international meeting, "Sea to Plate by the City of the Golden
Gate," emphasizes bridging communication.
Annually, the PFT conference rotates among the Pacific Rim states and
countries (including Canada and Mexico). PFT supports the exchange of
technical and scientific information among fisheries technologists, and
those interested in fisheries technology. PFT offers a venue for
presentations and discussions of technical scientific matters relating
to the fisheries industries and to research institutes, universities,
and governmental agencies engaged in fisheries work.
Registration and an evening reception starts on February 3rd and the
technical program starts at 8 AM on February 4th and ends by noon on
Feburary 6th. There will be oral and poster presentations. (The
tentative program will be posted on the PFT web site in December 2006.)
The call for papers seeks presentations in:
Aquaculture and Feeds * Biochemistry * Byproducts * Education/Extension
* Engineering *
Environmental Issues * Fish Harvesting and Handling * Marine Biology *
Marketing * Microbiology *
Processing * Regulatory Issues * Safety * Shellfish * Value-added
Products * Waste Management
The due date for submitting abstracts is November 30, 2007. The
technical presentation committee chair is Dr. Subramaniam Sathivel
(Louisiana State University).
For 2008, PFT is offering a limited number of competitive travel grants
for students presenting their research. There will also be prizes
awarded to the best student oral and poster presentations. Ms. Liz
Brown (University of Alaska Marine Advisory Program) is chair of the
travel grants and Dr. Donald Kramer (University of Alaska Marine
Advisory Program) is chair of the student paper competition.
Registration is being coordinated by PFT treasurer, Dr. Jae Park (Oregon
State University).
Hotel reservations should be made by January 10, 2008 with the Hotel
Whitcomb to receive the PFT group rate of $89(US) plus14% tax per night.
Details regarding abstract submission, early registration, letter of
invitation (for international attendeesa), lodging, travel directions
and an optional HACCP Segment 2 course immediately following the PFT
meeting are available on the PFT home page at:
http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/pft2008
Questions regarding PFT can also be emailed to the PFT email address at:
PFT2008@gmail.com
Pamela Tom
===========================================
Pamela Tom, Seafood Extension Program Manager
Pacific Fisheries Technologists President
University of California
California Sea Grant
Web: http://seafood.ucdavis.edu <http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/>
(SeafoodNIC)
E-mail: pdtom@ucdavis.edu <mailto:pdtom@ucdavis.edu>
59th Pacific Fisheries Technologists Meeting
February 3-6, 2008 in San Francisco, CA
Web: http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/PFT2008
<http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/PFT2008>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Aug 14 2007 - 00:02:37 PDT