We are pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2012 Peter Howgate Award for the Young Fish Technologist of the Year.

 The award will be a financial grant towards the cost of travel or subsistence for professional development, for an amount up to EURO 500. The winning applicant will be a candidate who shows outstanding promise of making a significant contribution to the subject, and will be selected by an international panel of respected fish technologists.

 Interested applicants (aged 30 years or younger on 1 January 2012) can obtain more information and an application form from www.peterhowgateaward.com. Applications for the award should be submitted by the end of April 2012.

Peter Howgate on board the Torry research trawler, the GA Reay, 1981

  The award was launched last year in honour of Peter Howgate who, for 35 years worked at the Torry Research Station, Aberdeen,  a UK government institute specialising in research and development in fish processing and handling. Peter has made a massive and ongoing contribution to our understanding of fish technology, particularly in the field of sensory evaluation of fish quality, and he continues to contribute widely, including frequent, erudite and immensely well researched contributions to the HACCP discussion list at Seafood@UCDavis.edu. 

Clara Bah, 2011 Winner of the Peter Howgate Award

The 2011 winner of the Award was Ms. Clara Bah, a researcher at the Department of Food Science, University of Otago in New Zealand.  

The prize of EUR500  helped Clara to attend the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (NZIFST) conference in Rotorua, New Zealand at the end of June 2011, at which she presented her MSc research findings on the bioactivity of fish roes from five commercial New Zealand fish species.  She hopes her paper will help to publicise how the extraction of useful bioactive compounds from parts of fish which are often discarded can help to improve the commercial value of fishery products.

We look forward to hearing from you.  Good Luck !

The Peter Howgate Award Coordination Group.

Carlos Lima dos Santos,   Editor, The Fish Inspector
Ian Goulding*,                  Managing Director, Megapesca Lda, Portugal
Pamela Tom,                    Director, California Sea Grant Seafood Network Information Center,  USA
Peter Howgate                   (retired) 
Richard Watson,               Seafood Information Network Manager, Sea Fish Industry Authority, UK

 * coordinator’s contact details

Tel.+ 351 262 990 372
Fax.+ 351 262 990 496
www.megapesca.com
megapesca@mail.telepac.pt