Skretting Scholarchips for Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network Training Course
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06/21/2006

Under a continuing agreement with NACA, international aquaculture feed producer Skretting will again support the participation of three private sector participants in the training course for the Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network, that will be held from November 20 – December 9, 2006 in East Java, Indonesia.

Interested private sector participants in the Asia-Pacific region are invited to submit an applications 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 three scholarships will be awarded based on the following criteria:
1. The person should be from the private sector, actively working in aquaculture
2. The person should ideally have hands-on practical experience in brackishwater or marine aquaculture
3. The person should be able to communicate and read reasonably well in English
4. The person should come from a developing country in the Asia-Pacific region

All interested private sector participants interested in these Skretting scholarships should send in a short resume and a cover letter to grouper@enaca.org (message marked clearly: Skretting Scholarships) by 31st August 2006.

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 in investing 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.

The course structure will be similar to the privious year. For further information, a report of the privious course is available in PDF from the naca website:
http://www.enaca.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=786