National Aquaculture Educators

Networks, such as the National Aquaculture Educators Network (NAEN) in the USA, provide ready sources of information that can be used by educators in the classroom. One of their expressed purposes is to help educators motivate students using aquaculture and water-related topics in science as well as math, language arts, social studies and the hne arts (NAEN, 2012). There are groups in other countries and in many states and regions that support aquaculture information and often there are ties to hatchery components. 

NAEN (2012) National Aquaculture Educators Network, http //www.aces.edu/dept/ fisheries/education/NationalAquacultureEdNetwork.php (accessed September 2012). 

Most states now have an aquaculture coordinator, usually housed in the state department of agriculture, who can assist prospective aquaculturists in finding a path through the permitting process. Anyone considering development of an aquaculture faciHty should become educated on the permitting process of the state or nation in which the faciHty will be developed. In cases where the process is involved, it should be initiated weU in advance of the anticipated time of actual faciHty constmction. 

This website, maintained by the Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, gives a listing of K-12 educational sites related to aquaculture. 

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