NY Sea Grant is hosting Seafood and Aquaculture Office hours with various NY State Agencies involved in the regulation of aquaculture and seafood.
Office hours will be held virtual and are free to participants, but registration is required. You can include questions you have for any of the agencies participating when registering.
• January 31, 2025 — The first "office hours" focused on "Meet your State Partners: Agencies involved in Aquatic Foods Regulation" — Video Recording
• Wednesday, April 23, 2025 — The second "office hours" focused on "Food Safety & Seafood HACCP" — Video Recording
• July of August 2025 — When the third "office hours" is likely to be held.
Purpose
To enhance and facilitate active communication among academic, agency, and industry professionals related to aquatic foods and aquatic foods regulation and safety. Aquatic foods include all farmed and wild-caught finfish, shellfish, and seaweed.
Goals
1. Create a platform for regular interaction and communication among industry, agency, and academics who play a role in aquatic food safety.
2. Provide an opportunity for industry to engage with experts annually to address issues or challenges they face related to the processing and marketing of aquatic foods.
Recordings
Food Safety & Seafood HACCP — NY Aquaculture and Seafood Office Hours (April 2025)
In this session, which was in partnership with the Cornell Institute for Food Safety Virtual Office Hours, NYSG's Seafood Specialist Michael Ciaramella provided an overview of Seafood HACCP, what it is and to whom it applies. Ciaramella also highlighted the process of conducting a hazard analysis and its importance. This was followed by updates on guidance for histamine in seafood products from the FDA, with food inspector Eugene Evans, and its potential impact on the industry.
Meet Your Partners — NY Aquaculture and Seafood Office Hours (January 2025)
In this session, the first in NYSG's "Seafood and Aquaculture Office hours" series, NYSG's Seafood Specialist Michael Ciaramella hosts talks from various NY State Agencies involved in the regulation of aquaculture and seafood.
More Info: New York Sea Grant
New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University
and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based
programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
National Sea Grant College Program.
Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated
research, education and extension services promoting coastal community
economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness
and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.
Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists
and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based
information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries,
federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers,
educators, the media and the interested public.
The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY
Buffalo, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office
in Newark, and in Watertown. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook
University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, in Queens, at Brooklyn College, with Cornell Cooperative
Extension in NYC, in Bronx, with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County in Kingston, and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester County in Elmsford.
For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly.
