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AOCS Protein and Co-Products Division
Newsletter February 2008

AOCS ANNUAL MEETING SPECIAL

Brief Bio of the Invited Speaker for Annual PCP Division Dinner and the Outline of the Speech

On Tuesday, May 20, PCP Division will hold an annual Dinner event at the Washington Athletic Club. The menu has been selected, and ticket prices are set at $55 early/$65 late. Student price will be $20. Dr. Ray Hilborn, Professor of Fisheries Management in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, has been invited to speak at the dinner event. Here are his brief bio and an outline of his talk.

Ray Hilborn is Richard C. and Lois M. Worthington Professor of Fisheries Management in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, specializing in natural resource management and conservation. He currently serves as an advisor to several international fisheries commissions and agencies as well as teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in conservation, fisheries stock assessment and risk analysis. He authored "Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment" with Carl Walters in 1992, and "The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data" with Marc Mangel in 1997. Major areas of current and past research interest include Bayesian analysis of decision making in natural resources, adaptive management of renewable resources, the dynamics of the Serengeti ecosystem in east Africa, the role of hatcheries in management of Pacific salmon, the ability of institutions to learn from experience, statistical methods in testing dynamic ecological hypotheses, the analysis of migration and dispersal from mark-recapture data, and the ecological dynamics of fishing fleets. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada and received the Volvo Environmental Prize in 2006.

Outline of Dr. Hilborn's Dinner Speech:

1. World capture fisheries harvests have almost certainly peaked and will likely decline.

2. Aquaculture is growing rapidly and will almost certainly continue to do so and will surpass capture harvest in the foreseeable future.

3. A significant portion of aquaculture production has come from pisciverous fish (mostly salmon so far) and the market demand for aquaculture production of a range of fish such as cod, halibut, and dozens of other species now under culture is high.

4. The production potential for these species will be severely constrained by the lack of fish protein, which is the traditional form of feed. This is both an economic constraint and an ecological one as many NGOs are actively opposing expansion of aquaculture because of the ecological impact.

5. The solution to this problem is development of plant based feeds for these species. Therefore, oilseed proteins come to play.

Also in this newsletter:

AOCS 2008 Annual Meeting in Seattle May 18-21

Message from the Chair, by Keshun Liu

Message from the PCP Division Secretary/Treasurer

New Board Members, by Mila Hojilla-Evangelista

AOCS Offers Expanded Career Center

Welcome New Members

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