Grant funding for attendance of young fish technologists at the 2025 World Seafood Congress

The International Association of Fish Inspectors (IAFI) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2025 Peter Howgate Award. This award will fund the attendance of a young fish technologist (under 30 years of age) to the IAFI World Seafood Congress 2025, to be held in Chennai, India from 22-24th September 2025. The Award will cover travel, accommodation and the congress fee, and this will afford the winning applicant a career changing opportunity to gain insights and build networks in the global fishery sector. The deadline for submission of applications is 28th March 2025. You can also visit our Facebook page for updates and information about previous awards (https://www.facebook.com/PeterHowgateAward ).

The IAFI Peter Howgate Award is a tribute to the late Peter Howgate's work and career, and a recognition of his immense and ongoing contribution to the field of fish technology and the people who work in it, both during his 35 years at the UK’s Torry Research Station, UK, and thereafter. The Award was set up by fish technology professionals around the world, with the help of the Seafood HACCP Discussion List community and was adopted by IAFI in 2014. We look forward to meeting the successful applicant at WSC 2025.

You can download the Rules and application form for the 2025 Peter Howgate Award here.

 
The International Association of Fish Inspectors is delighted and honoured to announce the winners of the 2023 IAFI Peter Howgate Award.

They are Ms Polina Rusanova from Russia and Mr Samuel Koduah from Ghana. Polina has background as a marine ecologist and is a researcher at the Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology of the National Research Council of Italy, having completed a joint Masters degree in Environmental management at Irkutsk State University, Russia and Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany. Polina’s research area concerns the impacts of the environment on seafood safety and quality.  In particular she will present a paper at World Seafood Congress 2023 on microplastic contamination in elasmobranch fish and impacts on seafood quality. Sam works as a Fish Inspector in the Fish Inspection Department of the Ghana Standards Authority, located in Accra. His main duties are as a front-line officer undertaking the food safety inspection and auditing of fishing vessels and fish processing establishments listed for export of fishery products from Ghana. This work involves him in checking hygiene conditions of the facilities, its staff and HACCP food safety control systems, and the preparation of reports. IAFI sends our warmest congratulations to them both.

Ms. Polina Rusanova, from Irktusk, Russia 

         Mr. Samuel Koduah, from the Ghana Standards Authority

       

World Seafood Congress 2023

(in association with International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety)

25-27 September 2023
Peniche-PORTUGAL  

Fisheries and aquaculture production and distribution systems are at the heart of the blue bio-economy.  As the supplier of the world’s most traded protein, the seafood sector has a pivotal role to play in building and maintaining global supply and distribution systems that ensure the delivery of safe, sustainable, and equitable products and services into the second half of the 21st Century.

The WSC2023 will explore how to optimise the contribution of fishery and aquaculture production and distribution to sustainable development, reflecting the interests of operators, workers along the supply chain and, crucially, consumers.

The Congress will bring together the businesses and people working in the global seafood trade and its supply chain. It will consider how to optimise their contributions and how the sector can adapt to the challenging dynamics of the physical, biological, informational, and socio-economic environment to ensure that businesses deliver safe, sustainable, and equitable products and services into the second half of the 21st Century. 

Key Thematic Areas: 

• Advances in the science and technology of food from the aquatic environment
• Optimisation of safe and sustainable value chains
• Meeting global demands of markets and consumers
• Molluscan Shellfish Safety

Catching the Wave 
of the 
Blue Bio-economy

“Adding Value to Seafood in a Dynamic Environment”

www.wsc2023.com

Grant funding for attendance of young fish technologists at the 2023 World Seafood Congress

Peter Howgate Award 2023

The International Association of Fish Inspectors (IAFI) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2023 Peter Howgate Award. This award will fund the attendance of a young fish technologist (under 30 years of age) to the IAFI World Seafood Congress 2023, to be held in Peniche, Portugal from 25-27^th September 2023. The Award will cover travel, accommodation and the congress fee, and this will afford the winning applicant a career changing opportunity to gain insights and build networks in the global fishery sector. The deadline for submission of applications is 19th May 2023. You can also visit our Facebook page for updates and information about previous awards (https://www.facebook.com/PeterHowgateAward ).

The IAFI Peter Howgate Award is a tribute to the late Peter Howgate's work and career, and a recognition of his immense and ongoing contribution to the field of fish technology and the people who work in it, both during his 35 years at the UK’s Torry Research Station, UK, and thereafter. The Award was set up by fish technology professionals around the world, with the help of the Seafood HACCP Discussion List community and was adopted by IAFI in 2014. We look forward to meeting the successful applicant at WSC 2023.

You can download the Rules and application form for the 2023 Peter Howgate Award here.

IAFI Selects 2019 Winners of IAFI Peter Howgate Award

The International Association of Fish Inspectors is delighted and honoured to announce the winners of the 2019 IAFI Peter Howgate Award. They are Ms Stella Mbabazi from Uganda and Mr Justin Sundarrajan from India. Stella is an inspector with the Department of Fisheries Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries, based in Entebbe, Uganda, where she has worked for five years undertaking official food safety controls in the fisheries value chain. Justin works with Newport International, in Chennai, India where he is the Quality Control Manager in a plant producing pasteurised frozen crab for the US market. Previously he worked in similar functions in the Maldives and for the Thai Union Group. Both candidates are being supported with airfare, accommodation and conference fee, to attend the IAFI World Seafood Congress 2019 in Penang, Indonesia from 9 to 11^th September 2019. Both are attending with the full support of their employers and are very much looking forward to the experience of hearing about the latest trends in in fish technology, and meeting with scientists, NGOs, other Competent Authorities and fishery business operators from all over the world. IAFI sends our warmest congratulations to them both.

Ms.Stella Mbabazi, Department of Fisheries Resources, Uganda

Mr.Justin Sundarrajan, Newport International, India

Grant funding for attendance of young fish technologists at the 2019 World Seafood Congress

The International Association of Fish Inspectors is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2019 Peter Howgate Award. This award will fund the attendance of a young fish technologist (under 30 years of age) to the IAFI World Seafood Congress 2019, to be held in Penang, Malaysia from 9-11^th September 2019. The Award will cover travel, accommodation and the congress fee, and this will afford the winning applicant a career changing opportunity to gain insights and build networks in the global fishery sector. The deadline for submission of applications is 29^th March 2019. You can also visit our Facebook page for updates and information about previous awards (https://www.facebook.com/PeterHowgateAward ).

The IAFI Peter Howgate Award is a tribute to the late Peter Howgate's work and career, and a recognition of his immense and ongoing contribution to the field of fish technology and the people who work in it, both during his 35 years at the UK’s Torry Research Station, UK, and thereafter. The Award was set up by fish technology professionals around the world, with the help of the Seafood HACCP Discussion List community and was adopted by IAFI in 2014. We look forward to meeting the successful applicant at WSC 2019.

You can download the Rules and application form for the 2019 Peter Howgate Award here.