The Alaska Marine Advisory Program is providing a month of training for seafood processor certification January 31-February 23, 2001. Sessions are in Anchorage at the Regal Alaskan Hotel and at Indian Valley Meats. The training is for commercial processors involved in canning, retorting, and preparation of pickled products. It is required by FDA for all supervisors of can seam inspection and retort operation. Candidates must have completed four years of study.
Locations are in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho.
Proceedings of the First National Conference, January 24-27, 1999. The book covers topics that are fundamental to understanding marine biological invasions and their impacts, including species distribution, molecular approaches to identifying sources of the invaders, and management. Marine Bioinvasions has good information for those setting policy and managing nonindigenous species. Each month we will send you an email message linked to the electronic copy on the Sea Grant Web site. Fishlines is a monthly in-house newsletter reporting Alaska Sea Grant activities to staff, students, and principal investigators of Alaska Sea Grant and the Marine Advisory Program, and staff of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.