September 2, 2016
Weekly Wave,
vol.
4,
no.
25,
Water Resources Research Center,
Tucson, AZ,
September 2, 2016
For two weeks in August, Jean McLain traveled to Yangon, Burma to continue her work on a US-AID funded project, "Developing a Sustainable Seafood Industry Infrastructure in Myanmar (Burma)." This 3-year project, a partnership between the UA and Yangon and Pathein Universities in Myanmar, and the Myanmar Fisheries Federation, endeavors to work with a wide diversity of groups, from local fishermen to university researchers, to aid the country in developing the capacity to produce seafood with sustainable methods and using modern seafood safety testing techniques to build export capabilities.
With Project Director Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons, McLain has worked for nearly two years assembling a modern seafood safety testing laboratory at Yangon University. The August travel focused on delivering training in aquaculture and laboratory techniques to 80 teachers from 44 different universities in Burma.
For more information on this project, click here