Welcome to the first edition of E-MISA for 2011.

Recent MISA news and activities include:

Seaweed farming....coming soon

The South Australian Government has welcomed a new research project to examine the feasability of farming seaweed in association with existing ocean-based aquaculture.  More...(PDF 97KB) 

Story taken from the Advertiser on Saturday December 11, 2010 (PDF 186KB).

A message from the deep

Lifesavers on Adelaide’s suburban beaches could one day receive warnings of sharks in the area via text messages to their mobile phones.  More...

Sea lions in the spot light

Groundbreaking research on Australian sea lions is featured as the cover story in the Jan-March edition of Australian Geographic.  Author, Roy Hunt, accompanies SARDI’s Assoc. Prof. Simon Goldsworthy and Dr Brad Page to Dangerous Reef, South Australia, to give a first hand account of this innovative work.  More...

Photos and more on the National Geographic website.

Australian Seafood CRC courses

A range of courses are available from January 2011 including: seafood management development program; understanding the Australian seafood consumer master class series; and seafood spoilage and safety predictor software master class.  More...

Upcoming events and important dates

Aquaculture America 2011, Aquaculture on Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 28 – March 3, 2011.  More....

Fourth International Science Symposium on Bio-Logging, Hobart, Tasmania, March 14-18, 2011.  More…

The Austalian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference, Adelaide, Flinders University, April 11-13, 2011.  Call for papers. More....

BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of Marine Biotechnology (WCMB - 2011), Dalian, China, April 25-30, 2011.   More....

Fish Diversity and Conservation: Current State of knowledge.  The Fisheries Society of the British Isles 2011 Annual International Conference, Bournemouth, Dorset, U.K., July 18-22, 2011.  More....

December 2010 edition of E-MISA