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Industry Research & Training

Formal and informal teaching, outreach, information transfer, and training are important components of Fish Tech's mission. In collaboration with the Marine Advisory Program, Fish Tech personnel are frequently involved in training industry workers in areas as diverse as food microbiology, HACCP training, and fish filleting. Our undergraduate teaching was stifled because of a lack of dormitory space, but new housing at the Kodiak Fishery Research Center will soon become available.

We are developing undergraduate courses at the Certificate, Associate, and Bachelors level in collaboration with Kodiak College. We are developing a Seafood Industry Curriculum for 4th through 8th grade teachers to help educate K-12 students about Alaska's largest employer, the seafood industry.

Working with industry leaders, we are also developing portable courses for seafood processing workers. Our graduate program, administered through UAF, is an interdisciplinary one with Master's and Doctorate degrees in Food Science and Nutrition. Projects include:

• Development of 500-level development courses for K-12 teachers in seafood harvesting and processing.
• Developing a bachelors program in aquaculture.
• Developing further certificate and associate of arts programs for seafood processing and sustainable harvesting workers.
• Training graduate students in Sustainable Harvesting and Quality Assurance / Quality Control, for the industry.