The Oregon Ad-Hoc Aquaculture Advisory Board

Two OAA Members Appointed to Aquaculture Initiative
by Katy Coba, Oregon Department of Agriculture

• Oregon Aquaculture Advisory Group Brochure
• Aquaculture Advisory Board Members
• Oregon Ad-Hoc Aquaculture Advisory Board: Mission, Vision, and Work
• Aquaculture Project Proposal - September, 2013
• ODA Aquaculture Committee Minutes: October 4, 2013
• Strategic Framework for Oregon Aquaculture: December, 2013
• ODA Aquaculture Minutes: January 14, 2014
• Ad Hoc Aquaculture Advisory Committee Meeting Notes: March 27, 2014
  • Regional Strategies Committee on Aquaculture: Tour of Oregon Oyster Farms, Inc. on March 27, 2014
• Aquaculture Advisory Committee Meeting Notes: July 8, 2014 (pdf 400kb)
  • The Future of Fish Protein: Beyond Sustainability or How Fisheries and Aquaculture Will Save the World (pdf 7mb)
    Presentation given by Dr. Michael Morrissey, Superintendent, OSU's Food Innovation Center in Portland
  • Outline of ODA's Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) (pdf 600kb)
• Aquaculture Advisory Committee Meeting Notes: October 23, 2014

• Pond School 2008 Materials

• Pond School 2007 Materials

• Pond School 2006 Materials

Click here to read OAA's President's Welcome letter.

Oregon Aquaculture Association is a 501(c)(5) non-profit organization.  The purpose is to achieve the following goals:

1. to provide a medium of exchange of experiences and discussions of industry problems

2. to promote public education

3. to advocate just and proper laws and regulations that impact aquaculture

4. to recommend research and education initiatives to research facilities and universities that will meet the current and future needs of the aquaculture industry

5. to conduct any and all activities necessary for the advancement, promotion, expansion and well-being of the aquaculture industry in Oregon

Aquaculture Information

• Do you have native pond turtles? For further information: http://www.oregonzoo.org/Turtles/ 

• USDA Releases 2013 Census of Aquaculture Results (released September 29, 2014)

• USDA 2012 Census on Aquaculture Full Report (released May, 2014)

• The USDA ERS has released its latest data on domestically grown catfish and trout and U.S. imports and exports of fish and shellfish that may be products of aquaculture, such as salmon, shrimp, and oysters.  The data can be accessed at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Aquaculture/

• Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife/p>

  • Fish Stocking by Watershed Basin

• Pond Management Handout, Jim Nelson, PhD, The Pond Doctor

• Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

• For additional information, access "Links and Resources" under menu category, Resources, above.