COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, U.S. — A one-week course on aquaculture feed extrusion, nutrition and feed management will be offered Aug. 21-26 at Texas A&M University by staff, industry representative and consultants. This program will cover information on designing new feed mills and selecting conveying, drying, grinding, conditioning and feed mixing equipment.

Current practices for preparing full-fat soy meal processing; recycling fisheries by-products, raw animal products, and secondary resources; raw material, extrusion of floating, sinking, and high fat feeds; spraying and coating fats, digests and preservatives; use of encapsulated ingredients and preparation of premixes, nutritional requirements of warn water fish and shrimp, feed managements and least cost formulation will be reviewed.

Practical demonstrations of sinking, floating, and high fat aquafeed, will be demonstrated on four major types of extruders - (dry, interrupted flights, single and twin screw), using various shaping dies. Other demonstrations will include vacuum coating and lab analysis of the raw material for extrusion. Reservations will be accepted on a first-come basis. For more information, programs and application forms, contact:

Dr. Mian N. Riaz

2476 TAMU; Food Protein R&D Center

Texas A&M University; College Station, TX 77843-2476

Phone: 979.845.2774; Fax: 979.845.2744

E-mail: mnriaz@tamu.edu; Website: http://foodprotein.tamu.edu/extrusion