News & Events
Important news / info for current Fish/Aqua students (click here)
Congratulations to our fall 2011 scholarship and awards recipients! $19,300 was awarded to 16 deserving students from our diploma and BSc. programs. We would also like to thank our sponsors for their generous donations.
Communication and Media
Check out the short film "Silver Harvest: BC Salmon Farming in the New Millenium" on the web from Make Waves Productions. "A must see for those who want a more accurate, modern-day inside look at the tough environmental questions facing the rapidly evolving Salmon Farming industry in British Columbia. Silver Harvest puts a face and a voice to the pioneers as well as today's researchers and entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to developing sustainable, workable solutions to feed a hungry human populace estimated to reach eight billion by the year 2024."
Trout Spawn 2010 It was a cold day in January when we got together to "assist" our trout in their motivations for procreation. We had a great time and ate a lot of pizza afterward to warm our souls!
RBC Blue Water Leadership Grant Awarded to the Qualicum Bay Enhancement Project:
Trout Unlimited Canada was the proud recipient of a $75,000 Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Blue Water Leadership Grant. Working in partnership with the Nile Creek Enhancement Society and Vancouver Island University, the Blue Water Leadership Grant funds will be used in support of a comprehensive 5-year plan to restore and enhance cutthroat habitat to a number of watersheds entering Qualicum Bay such as Nile Creek. Qualicum Bay is located just North of Nanaimo on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Congratulations TUC, Nile Creek Enhancement Society and Frank Dalziel, Technologist, VIU Fisheries and Aquaculture Department (pictured second from left)! Click here for the full TUC press release.
VIU hosting international sturgeon conference.
Vancouver Island University is preparing to host two prestigious international events: the World Sturgeon Conservation Society’s North American conference in 2011, and the 7th International Sturgeon Symposium in 2013. Click here to read the full article.
A huge congratulations to Dr. Duane Barker for receiving a Strategic Projects Grant from NSERC totaling $413,417. The project, Defining the ecological and immunological roles of sea lice in the propagation and development of pathogens among farmed salmonids in British Columbia, will be carried out over the next three years. Along with Dr. Barker, members of the collaborative research team 
include Drs. S. Johnson, S. Jones and K. Garver from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Pacific Biological Station), Drs. M. Sheppard, I. Keith and Ms. M. Coombs of BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Dr. S. Saksida of the BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences and Dr. D. Morrison and Mr. B. Boyce of Marine Harvest Canada. Up to twelve undergraduate and four graduate students (recent VIU alumni) as well as a post-doctoral fellow will be involved in various aspects of the project over the next three years. With VIU's focus on providing research opportunities for undergraduate students - this funding is cause to celebrate! Way to go Duane! To read the full article click here.