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Aquaculture 2018: Strength in Numbers
Building the Industry with Collaboration, Training and Education
UWSP-Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility
Winter Newsletter 2018
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Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference 2018: Collaborative Efforts
 The Wisconsin Aquaculture Association has collaborated with the UWSP NADF to offer this year's Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference in Marshfield on March 2nd and 3rd, 2018. The conference will pull in surrounding states including Minnesota and Michigan to discuss industry updates and state priorities. The idea to incorporate surrounding states suggests the potential for future collaboration and growth as Midwest aquaculture is taking great strides and advances with companies such as Superior Fresh (Northfield, WI) and Urban Organics (St. Paul, MN).
The WAA conference will include topics such as industry updates, hatchery design, aquaponics, fish health and biosecurity, training opportunities, marketing and labelling, expert panel and also includes an industry tradeshow, lunch and cooking demonstration. This conference is a great way to connect with the industry and learn about new systems, techniques and best management practices. Learn more information or register here...
Photos:
Cover-Atlantic salmon scales from a broodstock fish at UWSP NADF.
Top- Photo of the attendees of a past Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference in collaboration with North Central Regional Aquaculture Center in 2016.
Middle-Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference save the date flier.
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Workforce Development & Training
Aquaculture Boot Camp (ABC) in Wisconsin 
In partnership with The Ohio State University (OSU), the UWSP Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility & UWSP Aquaponics Innovation Center is collaborating with Nelson & Pade, Inc. ®, WI Aquaculture Association to offer Wisconsin’s first Aquaculture/Aquaponics Boot Camp Class. This project is funded by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture through OSU. This is a free, year-long training opportunity for beginning aquaculture farmers in which highlights a variety of topics to prepare participants for fish farming in the Midwest. Classes begin February 2018. Email ewiermaa@uwsp.edu for more information, applications will be taken until the end of January 2018.
2017 UWSP NADF Pond Culture Report 
A summary of the extensive rearing of walleye fingerlings in the facility's half acre, clay lined ponds in collaboration with Red Cliff Tribal Hatchery. This report highlights UWSP NADF management practices and techniques for walleye pond culture including egg incubation, pond fertilization, fish management and harvest.
 UWSP NADF Pond Workshop Report In collaboration with Lac du Flambeau Tribal Hatchery, the UWSP NADF offered a pond culture workshop that highlighted pond construction, water quality, pond fertilization and fish management. The workshop attendees were provided with online video learning modules and facility tours and training at UWSP NADF and Lac du Flambeau which highlighted extensive walleye production. Sea Grant Institute provided the funding for this workshop.
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Top: UWSP NADF Manager, Greg Fischer, shares various fish sampling techniques to attendees of the UWSP NADF pond culture workshop
Middle: 2017 UWSP NADF Pond Culture Report (click on icon to view report).
Bottom: UWSP NADF Pond Workshop Report (click on icon to view report).
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Aquaculture Education
 Wisconsin Science Fest was hosted in the northern part of the state by Bayfield High School this last fall. During four days each fall, hundreds of venues around Wisconsin participate in the Wisconsin Science Festival, a statewide celebration that connects people with science, technology, engineering, art and math. UWSP NADF joined Bayfield school to engage students in aquaculture, letting students put their hands in a bowl of fish eggs, look into a tank of walleyes (photo at right) and learn what a sea lamprey feels like! (photo above). Sea lampreys are being used in a project at UWSP NADF to better understand the sub-lethal effects of their parasitism on lake trout populations.
UWSP NADF recently donated over 300 extended  walleye fingerlings to schools across Wisconsin for their aquaculture or aquaponics systems. Besides local schools to the facility which includes Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield districts, UWSP NADF donated fish to Winneconne, Bay Port and Freedom high schools. These walleye are surplus from an ongoing project at the facility and have been pellet trained using intensive techniques and practices in the facility's walleye larval system. These schools have the unique ability to raise pellet trained walleye in their system due to these fish not being available for purchase anywhere in the state.
 
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Top- Students at Bayfield Science Fest touching a sea lamprey at the UWSP NADF booth.
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-Student looks through an aquarium at walleye fingerlings at the UWSP NADF booth for Wisconsin Science Fest.
-Student from Bay Port high school nets out walleye for his class at UWSP NADF.
Bottom: Freedom high school student transferring walleye from the facility to their hauling tank (left). Freedom high school students and teacher, Mr. Champeau (right) traveled to UWSP NADF for tour and walleye fingerlings.
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