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Seafood Processing Classes and Workshops

In support of Alaska’s seafood processing businesses, we offer a broad range of classes and workshops on seafood safety, quality control, product development, business and marketing operations, leadership training, and other topics.

HACCP Training

Learn how to monitor seafood processing operations using the HACCP program regulation guidelines.

Smoking Seafood for Fun and Profit

These workshops are for anyone interested in smoking and processing fish, including home fish-smoking enthusiasts, small smokehouse operators, fishermen interested in direct marketing their fish, and commercial operators.

Wakefield Fisheries symposia

For information on current and recent Wakefield symposia, see our main symposium web page and our archives. We also have a complete list of all Wakefield proceedings published since 1982.

Our Marine Research and Proceedings catalog includes available proceedings from Wakefield and other meetings.

Upcoming Meetings, Workshops, and Classes

Smoked Seafood School - Kodiak May 2024

May 2–3, 2024, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
Kodiak, Alaska
Contact:

Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative Gathering

May 8–11, 2024
Sitka, Alaska
Contact: Ashley Dunker

AK On-Board Crewmember Training: Petersburg

June 1–3, 2024
Sitka, Alaska
Contact: Sunny Rice

Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute 2024

A training program for future leaders in the seafood industry
November 7–11, 2024
Kodiak, Alaska
Contact: Quentin Fong

Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute Spring 2025

A training program for future leaders in the seafood industry
March 6–10, 2025
Anchorage, Alaska
Contact: Quentin Fong

Recent events

Sanitation Control Procedures for Seafood Processors

April 26, 2024, 8:30 am–4:30 am
Online
Contact:

Business of Fishing - Cordova

April 25, 2024, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Cordova, Alaska
Contact: John Williams

Kodiak Area Marine Science Symposium 2024

Kodiak, Alaska
Contact: Julie Matweyou

AK On-Board Crewmember Training: Sitka

April 20–22, 2024
Sitka, Alaska
Contact: Natalie Sattler

Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium

33rd Wakefield Symposium
April 16–18, 2024
Sitka, Alaska
Contact: Ashley Dunker

Seafood HACCP Segment 2 — March 2024

March 1, 2024, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
Online
Contact:

Introduction to Starting and Operating a Seafood Direct Marketing Business - Jan-Feb 2024

January 29–February 8, 2024
Online - Zoom
Contact: Gabe Dunham

View complete list of past meetings, workshops, and classes from 2011 to present.

View archives of selected meetings from 1996 to 2011.

About our meetings, workshops, and classes

Alaska Sea Grant and the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program support public meetings, conferences, workshops, and classes on marine and coastal topics important to residents of Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the United States, and the international community.

For more information on our events, contact us at seagrant.meetings@alaska.edu or phone (907) 474-7086.

Last modified 3 February 2017, 4:13pm AKST. For website issues, contact Alaska Sea Grant web coordinator.
For program information, contact Alaska Sea Grant, PO Box 755040, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775-5040. sea.grant@alaska.edu, (907) 474-7086.

Alaska Sea Grant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is part of the National Sea Grant Program, a division of NOAA.

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