Aquaculture & Fisheries 2019 Winners
The 29th Science Atlantic
Aquaculture & Fisheries Conference
March 8 to 10, 2019, at Crandall University
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Thank you to our generous conference sponsors!
Overall Best Paper Award
Undergraduate
Sula Swart
Mount Allison University
The effect of diel thermal cycles on metabolism and performance in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Overall Best Paper Award
Graduate
Christopher Small
University New Brunswick - Fredericton
Comparing tissue structure in diploid and triploid zebrafish
Science Atlantic
Undergraduate Research Award
First Place
Sponsored by Cooke Aquaculture
Sula Swart
Mount Allison University
The effect of diel thermal cycles on metabolism and performance in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Second Place
Sponsored by Valores Inc.
Alexandrea Dickey
University of New Brunswick - Fredricton
Investigating changes in resource
use of fish and invertebrates as
spanning a 150-meter depth
profile in the inner and outer
Bay of Fundy.
Third Place Tie
Sponsored by Miramichi Striper Cup
Brent Walker
Mount Allison University
Seasonal distribution and
network analysis of shortnose
sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
in the lower Saint John River basin
Third Place Tie
Sponsored by Ocean Frontier Institute
Emily Kraemar
Dalhousie University
LAMP As A Tool For Rapid
Detection Of Saprolegnia Parasitica
In Salmonid Farms
Science Atlantic
Graduate Research Award
First Place
Sponsored by Elanco Animal Health
Christopher Small
University New Brunswick - Fredricton
Comparing tissue structure in
diploid and triploid zebrafish
Second Place Tie
Sponsored by Aquaculture Industry Association
Judith Bjorndahl
Acadia University
Long-term monitoring protocol
for American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)
based on sampling effort simulations
Second Place Tie
Sponsored by Marine Institute
Viviane Baldwin
Memorial University
Identification of stress biomarkers in Chionoecetes opilio to assess snow crab quality from the fishing to the processing plant
Third Place
Sponsored by Aquaculture Association of Canada
Jackson Zhe Yang
Acadia University
Identifying and quantifying Atlantic Salmon (Salmon salar), Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus), Cod (Gadus morhua), and Capelin (Mallotus villosus) in Striped Bass diets in Labrador
Miramichi Striper Cup
Striped Bass Award
Shangning Wang
Dalhousie Universit y -Agriculture Campus
Acanthocephala infections in Striped
Bass Morone saxatilis from Shubenacadie
River and Miramichi River stocks
Science Communication Award
Sponsored by Canadian Science Publishing
Sula Swart
Mount Allison University
The effect of diel thermal cycles on metabolism and performance in wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Previous award winners
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