13th Annual BC Aquaculture Achievement Awards
More about our Event on February 25, 2012...
Award: Outstanding Service to the Aquaculture Community
This year Positive Aquaculture included a new recognition award to our evening of celebration, the Outstanding Service to the Aquaculture Community Award. We were honoured to present this award to two individuals for their contribution to the industry we are all proud to work in and support.
Heather Olney was recognized for her extremely active participation in Social Media and speaking out in support of Salmon Farming in BC
Here is Heather's very active Twiiter Account: Annie Paddle @maisondesfleur : Retired commercial fisherman now staunch supporter of BC salmon aquaculture. https://twitter.com/#!/maisondesfleur and here is Heather speaking up on CTV Vancouver Island Report , November 08, 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFuLxvX2WxA&feature=player_profilepage
Wayne Gorrie from PR Aqua was recognized for his long time support of the aquaculture industry in BC, including the organization Van Isle 360 sailboat race around Vancouver Island that includes an educational salmon dinner held at a local fish farm.
Van Isle 360: http://www.vanisle360.com/ | Van Isle 360 visits BC salmon farm http://www.salmonfarmers.org/van-isle-360-visits-bc-salmon-farm
Thank you Heather and Wayne for your outstanding work in promoting BC Salmon Farming.
Photographs of Heather and Wayne are also in our Media Gallery
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Community Donation
We were once again very pleased to be able to present our Community Donation to the Campbell River Salmon Foundation on Saturday night.
Mike Gage from the Foundation http://www.crsalmonfoundation.org/ was in attendance to accept a $1,000 donation presented by Cory Percevault, President of Positive Aquaculture Awareness.
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Thank you
We have many people to thank for contributing to the success of 13th Annual Aquaculture Achievement Awards
Our Guests:
AKVA North America Group, Aquaculture North America News, Aztec Freight, Badinotti Net Services, BC Salmon Farmers Association, Canada Cryogenetics Services and their guests, Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences, Creative Salmon, Grieg Seafoods, Marine Harvest Canada, Mainstream Biological, Mainstream Canada, Noboco, Novartis Animal Health, Pacificus Biological Services, PR Aqua, Sablefish Canada , Taplow Feed and Walcan.
Thank you to Browns Bay Packing, BC Salmon Farmers Association and Grieg Seafoods for sponsoring tickets that allowed us to invite, City of Campbell River Councillors Andy Adams, Ryan Mennie and Mary Storry, Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Colleen Evans, Rivercorp CEO, Vic Goodman, Rivercorp Board Director, Harley Elias, and Mike Gage from Campbell River Salmon Foundation.
Our Silent Auction Donors:
Aztec Freight, Badinotti Net Service, BC Salmon Farmers Association, Canada Cryogenetics Services, Discovery Speciality Advertising/ Hilcam Trophies, First Dollar Alliance, Grieg Seafoods, Mainstream Canada, Marine Harvest Canada, NAPA Auto Supplies, Noboco, Ocean Pacific Marine, Odd Grydeland Consulting, Sablefish Canada, Skretting.
Our Heads and Tails Sponsors:
Aquapak and Noboco Styro Containers, MoreNot Campbell River Net Services, PR Aqua, Pacific Coastal Air, The Travel Place
Congratulations to our Grand Prize winner: Jim Mitchell. Enjoy your vacation !
Our Award Sponsors
AKVA North America, Aquaculture North America, BC Salmon Farmers, Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences, Noboco, Novartis Animal Health and Skretting.
Our Dinner
Thanks to Creative Salmon for the delicious Farm Fresh Chinook Salmon. it was expertly prepared by Rose’s Country Catering and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone.
Our MC and Photographer
Special thanks to Ryan Mennie for being such a great MC and thanks to Ludy Mennie of Mennie Memories http://menniememories.com/index2.php#/home/ for being our photographer for the evening.
Our Event Volunteers
Special thanks to Gina Forsyth who has been helping with the Silent Auction and the Welcome Table for many years now. Thank you to the Hall decorating team from Marine Harvest Canada, Denise Haywood, Adrienne David with daughter Summer and Paul Pattison. Thanks to the awesome team from Rivercorp, Andrea Knowles and Kim Downey for helping sell so many tickets for our Heads and Tails. Thanks to Heather Brown from Centre of Aquatic Health Sciences for escorting our Award recipients and sponsors to Photographer, Ludy Mennie. And thanks to Ed Knowler from Isle Video Design for his assistance with the Awards presentation video.
Our Event Organization Team and Award Selection Team
Cory Percevault, Leanne Brunt, Ian Roberts, Grant Warkentin and Marilyn Hutchinson.
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“Every year it gets better and better,” says Cory Percevault, president of Positive Aquaculture Awareness (PAA). “We love putting on this event, getting together to have a great time and to recognize people who do an exceptional job in aquaculture.”
We will see all of you Next Year !
