Annual Meeting Agenda
The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center
​September 28, 2020​

8:00 - 8:30 am        Registration

8:30 - 9:00 am         Welcome & Introductions

9:00 - 10:00 am         Keynote - Seafood Industry Current Challenges
  • Dave Love (Senior Scientist,Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) Impact of COVID and the Seafood Industry.
  • Jonathan van Senten (Assistant Professor, Virginia Seafood AREC Virginia Tech) Economic Aspects of Fisheries and Aquaculture
10:10 - 11:30 am          Alternative Seafood Panel
Moderator: Michael Ciaramella (Seafood Technology Specialist, Cornell University and New York Sea Grant)
  • Razieh Farzad (Assistant Professor, University of Florida) Alternative Seafood
  • Kiara Caruso (Cornell Food Venture Center) A study in value-added kelp products​
11:30 - 11:45 am          BREAK (Poster Session)

11:45 - 12:30 pm         Participant Presentations
  • 11:45   am  - Georgia Seafood Facilities Adapt to Operate during Pandemic - Tori Stivers & Sandy Shepherd, University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia.
  • 12:00 pm - A collaborative approach to building resilience in the seafood industry  - Michael Ciaramella, New York Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension.
  • 12:15 pm - Best Practices for Food Safety and Labeling of Seafood Products Sold in E-Commerce - Margaret Malkoski, National Fisheries Institute.
12:30 - 1:25 pm           LUNCH

1:30 - 3:00 pm           Participant Presentations
  • 1:30 pm - Expanding food safety/quality training at seafood processors - Christina A. Mireles DeWitt1, Virginia Ng2, Bruce Odegaard2, Brandii Holmdahl3, Chuck Anderson4, (1) Oregon State University, (2) Seafood Products Association, (3) Bornstein Seafood, (4) Certified Quality Foods.
  • 1:45 pm - Seaweed Safety Programs for the Emerging US Seaweed Industry - Michael Ciaramella, New York Sea Grant, Cornell Cooperative Extension.
  • 2:00 pm - Seafood Fraud & Traceability - Sharmeen Khan, OpsSmart Global.
  • 2:15 pm - Evaluation of Extended Storage of Whole Wild-Caught Catfish - Evelyn Watts, Allen Schaefer, Andrea Cerrato, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.
  • 2:30 pm - Functional Ice: A Successful Lab-to-Land Innovation that is Reducing Shrimp Spoilage and Increasing Profits for Seafood Sellers in Honduras - Bet Sarai Wu Alvarado1; Mayra Márquez González2; Amit Morey1, (1) Department of Poultry Science, Auburn University (2) Department of Food Science and Technology, Zamorano University, Honduras.
  • 2:45 pm - Q&A/Open Discussion

3:15 - 3:30 pm           BREAK (Poster Session)
3:30 - 5:00 pm          Business Meeting
6:30 pm                     Dinner


Poster Session
  • Combining fish and crustacean byproducts to produce pelleted aquafeed: Effect of byproduct type on pellet properties Sanaz Mirtalebi, Greg Bolton, Alexander Chouljenko Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Center for Marine Sciences and Technology.