FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, October 12, 2007

For more information contact:
Ted Sloan

(502) 564-4696

KENTUCKY AQUACULTURE ASSOCIATION’S

ANNUAL MEETING AND WORKSHOP OCT. 19 AT KSU

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Aquaculture Association will hold its annual meeting and workshop Oct. 19 at Kentucky State University’s Aquaculture Research Center in Frankfort.

The morning workshop on largemouth bass production is from 9 a.m. to noon EDT. Dr. Michael P. Masser, professor and extension fisheries specialist at Texas A&M University, will speak during lunch. Afternoon sessions begin at 1 p.m. with a chef’s panel led by Angela Caporelli, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s aquaculture coordinator and marketing specialist. Following will be 20-minute presentations on seven species – freshwater prawn, paddlefish, channel catfish, rainbow trout, marine shrimp, tilapia and koi – as well as a session on transport/viral hemorrhagic septicemia. The KAA will hold a business meeting and tour the KSU research center.

Cost is $20 per person for KAA members and $30 for non-members. To obtain a registration form or more information, call Karla Johnson at (502) 597-8106 or Angela Caporelli at (502) 564-4983.

The Aquaculture Research Center is located at 103 Athletic Road off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the KSU football stadium.

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