WWW.WA S .ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • JUNE 2022 7 2021 Best Article Award for World Aquaculture Magazine Every year, theWAS Board of Directors sponsors an award to the authors of the best article published in WorldAquaculture magazine as a way to encourage high-quality submissions. TheWAS Honors and Awards Committee has selected the article by Jaime Rojas, Adrian Devia, Paola Pinzon, Adriana Cortina, Marco Garzon, Silvia Sierra, Rafael Vieira, Linda Güiza, Mabel Mendoza, Andres Suarez, Jaime Faillace, Rafael Vergara, Maria Rosa Angarita and Daniel Benetti on “Closing the Reproductive Cycle of the Goliath Grouper in Colombia.” The article appeared in the September 2021 issue of WorldAquaculture. The article has helped publicize this research with Colombian authorities and enabled the investigators to secure additional funding support. 2017; 516,000 t in 2018; 523,000 t in 2019; and 502,000 t in 2020. The NIFS process omits the transplantation process in the sea. Instead, seedlings are grown in onshore tanks, where environmental conditions can be manipulated. With this newly developed technology, the seedlings are well-adapted to the environment and it is possible to shorten the seed production period from 60 to 40 days with the new transplantation method, saving time and money. Also, seedlings produced in inland tanks (average 7.6 mm) grew about twice as fast as conventional sea-transplanted ones (average of 4 mm). Currently, seedlings produced in December of last year are being farmed in a field test site off the coast of Gijang-gun and have been harvested since March. From August 2020 to 2021, the NIFS has promoted three on-site test farms (Gijang-gun, Busan). Ocean Arbor Day The MOF held the ‘10th Sea Arbor Day Ceremony at the National Maritime Museum in Busan in May under the theme of ‘Cultivating the Sea Forest, Dreaming of a Future Life.’ The MOF designated May 10 as ‘Ocean Arbor Day’ and has held a commemorative event since 2013 to publicize the importance of sea forest creation and restoration projects to plant seaweed and the importance of marine ecosystems. The Bronze Tower Medal (Order of Industrial Service Merit) was awarded to Mr. Seon-Yong Yoo, the Korean Federation of Coastal Fisher’s vice president. He has been engaged in the fishery industry for the past 50 years and made efforts to release fish seeds and collect waste fishing gear and marine debris to create aquatic resources and protect fishing grounds. During the Ocean Arbor Day event week, waste collection activities in the sea forest and seaweed planting events were held on eastern, western, and southern coasts. Educational programs were provided for children to create an experience on their own, such as ‘Creating a Sea Forest’. Through the Office of Education, FIRA provided age-specific educational videos and other study materials related to protecting the underwater ecosystem to elementary school students across the country. The NIFS Conducts Fish Disease PCR Detection Training The NIFS of the MOF conducted theoretical and practical education for international fisheries officials from ten countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Ghana, East Timor, Laos, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Cameroon, Tanzania, Peru) studying at Pukyong National University with various technical education such as cell culture method. The NIFS conducted the theoretical and practical training course at the VHS World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) standard laboratory of the NIFS. In the theoretical education, measures to prevent the international spread of infectious diseases were carried out, such as introducing the OIE function, the role of the standard laboratory, and the VHS international standard diagnostic method developed and registered by the NIFS. In the hands-on training, participants directly dissected flounders, practiced pathogen gene detection and fish cell culture methods, and presented and discussed the results of experiments to learn disease diagnosis capabilities. After acquiring the standard laboratory status from OIE in 2018, the VHS OIE standard laboratory of the NIFS proved the low detection power problem of the existing international standard diagnostic method for VHS diseases. It developed a new diagnostic approach to solving the problem. The OIE International Standard Manual for 2021 leads the world in diagnosing aquatic diseases. A Simple Diagnostic Kit for Aquatic Organism Disease Control A partial amendment to the ‘Aquatic Organism Disease Control Act’ is to diagnose aquatic organism diseases quickly using a simple diagnostic kit. The basis for using a simple diagnostic kit that can quickly identify aquatic organism disease in the field was prepared. Recently, private companies have developed and distributed the kit. The kit has been used only as an auxiliary means of diagnosing aquatic diseases. Accordingly, the MOF newly defined the simple diagnostic kit in the law. The simple diagnostic kit that passes performance verification by the MOF can be used in the field, allowing the issuing of restraint orders. — Ik Kyo Chung, President C H A P T E R R E P O R T S
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