SERA-IEG-9 Annual Meeting Minutes
March 15-17, 1998
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

 Sunday - March 15, 1998

The annual meeting of the Aquatic Food Animals from Warmwater Aquaculture (SERA-IEG-9) started with a tour of the Clemson Aquaculture Facility at 1:00 PM.   The tour included the Aquatic Animal Research Lab, Fish Disease Lab, Crawfish Research, Indoor Recirculating Systems, and the Partitioned Aquaculture System.

At 6:00 PM a social/dinner was held that featured “Beaufort Stew”, a famous South Carolina seafood delicacy.

Monday - March 16, 1998

The SERA-IEG-9 intervened at the Madren Conference Center on the Clemson University campus at 8:30 AM.  The group was welcomed by Dr. Bill Wehrenberg the Dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences and Dr. Dan Smith the Director of the Cooperative Extension Service.  Dr. Rocky English and Jack Whetstone were recognized as hosts of the meeting.  Dr. David Teem encouraged the group to continue its work and expressed the feeling that the group was one of the better information exchange groups in the Southern region and recognized as such by the Directors.  He stated that SERA-IEG9 is scheduled to terminate September 30, 1998 and that he had submitted the request for a 5-year extension.

Aquaculture in South Carolina was highlighted in the morning session.  The presentations included current status of the industry, as well as, research and extension efforts to assist the industry through Clemson University and the SC Department of Natural Resources (Wadell Mariculture Center).  A presentation of the developing National Catfish Information Database (NCID) was given by Dr. Marty Brunson of Mississippi State University.  After this presentation, the participants decided that an information/exchange group for the NCID should be added to the SERA-IEG-9.

Research and Extension Summaries were passed out.  The majority of Universities and Federal Labs attending provided each participant with summaries of current research and extension projects related to aquaculture at their institutions.  These summaries contained titles, abstracts, and the contact person(s) for each project.  These written summaries were initiated in 1994 and proven to be very popular with the SERA-IEG-9 participants.


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