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Feb
19
Wed
2025
Deadline: Knauss Graduate Policy Fellowship applications due
Feb 19 all-day
Mar
7
Fri
2025
Deadline: Final date to submit Inforgraphic for Louisiana Regional Fisheries Summit 2025
Mar 7 all-day
Mar
17
Mon
2025
Sanitation Control Procedures for Processing Fish and Fishery Products Workshop @ LSU Ag Center, Efferson Hall
Mar 17 @ 8:30 am – 4:45 pm

Please join the Louisiana Seafood Processing Demonstration Lab on February 10, 2025 for a one-day course on sanitation procedures for seafood processors, packers, wholesale dealers, harvesters, and warehouses.

Participants will receive a certificate that fulfills the FDA requirements for seafood sanitation control.

Image: Basic Seafood HACCP Training flyer.

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Mar
18
Tue
2025
Basic Seafood Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) Training @ LSU Ag Center, Efferson Hall
Mar 18 @ 8:00 am – Mar 20 @ 4:30 pm

Please join the Louisiana Seafood Processing Demonstration Lab for their “Basic Seafood HACCP training” on February 11-13, 2025.  

This multiday training is for people who handle commercial seafood to learn about safe handling practices. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate that fulfills the FDA and USDA requirements for HACCP training.

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Mar
20
Thu
2025
Oyster South Symposium 2025 @ Hyatt Place
Mar 20 @ 5:30 pm – Mar 22 @ 9:30 pm

This annual industry symposium for oyster growers from across the southern US (and the people who love them) is set for March 21-22, with a welcome reception on Thursday, March 20th, and a closing party on Saturday, March 22nd.

This meeting brings together producers, gear suppliers, distributors, chefs, food writers, vendors, researchers, students and managers from the southeast and Gulf coast regions to discuss pressing issues and relevant, practical research on oyster aquaculture. The Symposium is hosted by Oyster South, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that connects communities and provides resources to foster the success of oyster farming in the southern United States. This meeting is intended for industry members.

Mar
25
Tue
2025
Louisiana Regional Fisheries Summit: Pontchartrain Basin @ Slidell Municipal Auditorium
Mar 25 @ 9:00 am – 3:45 pm

Louisiana Regional Fisheries Summit:
Freshwater Impacts in the Pontchartrain Basin

Graphic: Save the Date – 2025 Fisheries Summit

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Apr
7
Mon
2025
Knauss applicant interviews with the Executive Director of Louisiana Sea Grant.
Apr 7 all-day
May
6
Tue
2025
Deadline: Full Proposals for Competitive Research Program Funding Opportunity for 2026-2028
May 6 all-day

The anticipated deadline for full proposals is 11:59 pm CDT on May 6, 2025This date and time will be confirmed/adjusted as needed when the encouragement/discouragement e-mails are disseminated. The portal will automatically close at the deadline. Please do not wait until the last minute to start your application process and/or submit your materials. Technical support for the eSeaGrant submission system will not be available after regular business hours on the due date. We are not able to extend the deadline for anyone for any reason.

Only investigators who submit LOIs will be eligible to submit full proposals.

May
20
Tue
2025
State of the Coast 2025 @ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
May 20 – May 22 all-day

The State of the Coast (SOC) conference is the largest statewide conference of its kind, providing an interdisciplinary forum to exchange timely and relevant information on the dynamic conditions of Louisiana’s coastal communities, environment and economy. The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL) produces this forum, the need for which grows with every acre of land lost to the Gulf of Mexico, along with our partners: the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana and the Water Institute.

Jun
29
Sun
2025
NMEA Annual Conference 2025
Jun 29 – Jul 3 all-day