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Skretting Scholarships for Regional Grouper Hatchery Training Course
by Suzi Fraser
03/02/2005


Skretting, Nutreco’s global aquafeed division, is to support the
participation of two private sector participants in the 3rd Regional Grouper
Hatchery Production Training Course for the Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish
Aquaculture Network, that will be held from April 18 - May 8, 2005.

NACA invites interested private sector participants in the Asia-Pacific
region to submit an application for the scholarships. The scholarships
include all costs of the training, including training fee, accommodation and
meals, and reasonable costs of transport between home base and Indonesia.


The two scholarships will be awarded based on the following criteria:
1. The person should be from the private sector, actively working in
aquaculture.
2. He or she should ideally have hand-on practical experience in
brackishwater or marine aquaculture
3. He or she should be able to communicate and read reasonably well in
English
4. He or she should come from a developing country in the Asia-Pacific
region.

All private sector participants interested in these Skretting scholarships
should send in a short resume and current company background to
grouper@... (message marked clearly: Skretting Scholarships) by the
25th March 2005 at the latest together with the registration form. The
successful applications will be notified by the 31st March 2005.

The registration form and further information on the training course can be
found at www.enaca.org/marinefish



In announcing this initiative, Mr Pedro Bueno, Director General of NACA,
said “We welcome this new partnership with Skretting, which brings together
a major commercial fish feed supplier to collaborate with NACA in the
development of this important and increasingly active marine finfish
network. Skretting’s support will be targeted towards extending outcomes of
research, including some of the ongoing work sponsored by ACIAR, to a much
wider range of industry users and building capacity of industry to adopt new
techniques and farming practices”.



“We are delighted to join this initiative”, said Craig Foster, Managing
Director of Skretting’s Australasian operations. “The valuable extension
work in transferring knowledge and skills will help ensure the sustainable
development of aquaculture in our region”.



The cooperation will support development of the marine finfish aquaculture
web site and the regular marine fish newsletters and magazines, and also
provide annual sponsorship of two people from developing countries in the
Asia-Pacific region to attend a grouper hatchery training course. The
hatchery training course has been an outstanding success in transferring
grouper hatchery technology to various countries in the region, including
Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Australia, reducing the current
reliance on wild-caught fingerlings for aquaculture in the region.
Skretting’s support for trainees from developing countries in the region
will also contribute to poverty alleviation and improvements in living
conditions of people in coastal communities – a core objective of the NACA
organization - by helping farmers develop skills in finfish aquaculture, an
important economic activity in many coastal regions throughout Asia.



Mr Bueno further emphasized the significance of the sponsorship by saying
that ”Government agency sponsorship (by APEC and ACIAR) allowed the
development of the network, but NACA recognizes that for such networks to be
sustainable in the longer term, they must move away from government funding
and become self-supporting. It is also important to make sure the benefits
of the research investment lead to positive industry developments. NACA is
grateful to Skretting for their vision and support, and we hope that other
industry partners will follow suit and join this important regional
partnership”.



The course

The training course will be hosted by Brackishwater Aquaculture Development
Center – Situbondo (BADC-Situbondo), East Java, Indonesia. BADC-Situbondo
has excellent facilities and practical experience in breeding and fingerling
production of several grouper species, including Cromileptes altivelis
(humpback grouper) and Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (tiger grouper). The
training will be conducted at BADC-Situbondo, but field trips will also be
made to the Research Institute for Mariculture Gondol, Bali and private
hatcheries, nurseries, grow-out and live fish exporters in Bali in addition
to the field trips in Situbondo.

The training course will provide participants the opportunity to observe
grouper hatchery and grow out farming practices in east Java and Bali, and
to learn practical techniques for hatchery management and nursing of
groupers.

Farmers, hatchery operators and technicians will benefit most from this
practical hands-on course. Those who are interested to invest in grouper
hatcheries, but have little or no aquaculture background (either practical
or theoretical) will also find the practical course a good basis for their
future investment decisions.


Blgo. Acui. MILTHON B. LUJAN MONJA
AQUADES
Consultor en Proyectos de Inversion de Acuicultura.
Urb. Santa Cristina C4-16
Nuevo Chimbote, Chimbote
Perú.
Telephone: +51 43 9912190
email: milthon.lujan@...