JCU Aquaculture Association

Come & join us Monday evening to celebrate national oyster day 🦪🎨 The best oyster inspired painting will receive a FREE ticket to our upcoming pub crawl!! 🤠🍺

P.S this event is free for all members 🤍

Hey guys! Incase you missed us at market day here is our official calendar for SP2 🎊 we can’t wait to see everyone at our upcoming events!! more info to come shortly regarding oyster day 🦪🫶🏻🎨

PINT OF SCIENCE AUSTRALIA

Come along on Monday 13th May to see our president, and our industry events coordinator, speak about gene editing and disease control in barramundi aquaculture at pint of science!

You’ll find them at

Tickets available at

❕INDUSTRY NIGHT❕

Come along May 9th and check out our Industry Night event!!

We’ve got an amazing lineup of speakers to talk about their experiences throughout the aquaculture industry. If you are keen to learn more about what’s involved within a career in aquaculture then come on down! We’ll have free soft drinks and some nibbles available throughout the night!

We’re so excited to see you all there!!

Hey guys!

Our semester 1 pub crawl is set and ready for next Friday, the 12th of April! A night sure to be filled with great friends, drinks and memories 🍻🐟

Starting at 7pm at Taphouse Townsville, we’ll work our way down flinders at, each venue with a different rule you’ll definitely want to be aware of! Theme of the night is Icons/ pop culture, so come dressed in a duo, trio or rock it solo!

After a big night we have our recovery bbq at riverway lagoons on Saturday from 11am, free for all pubcrawlers or $5 penalty for those looking fresh! 🤣🤠

See you all there 🫡

Tix available via the link in our bio

Our mid-semester calendar is live! Can’t wait to see you all at our upcoming events 🐟🦐🫶🏻🍺

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us celebrating Prawn day! Such a great event with some delicious prawns from 🦐

Stay tuned for more events coming up shortly 🐟☺️

Details for the first round of the cooking competition (prawn day)👩🏻‍🍳🦐

Fantastic job opportunity at one of our leading aquaculture research centers on campus! 🧫🔬🥼👩🏼‍🔬

Come along and celebrate prawns with us on Monday the 18th of march! All students welcome 🦐🫶🏻If you’d like to enter the prawn photo competition please send in your prawn photo to us prior to Monday 📸 Photos just need to include a picture of a prawn - either from pracs, field trips, farms, research or even your favorite prawn based meal 🍤Can’t wait to see everyone there!

‼️JOIN US ‼️

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Get ready for an exciting year of events!!! 🍻🦐🐟

A $10 fee gets you membership for the year, and access to all our free events! Members also get discounted prices for selected events.

Transfer your membership fee to the club using the details below, and email a screenshot along with a photo of your student ID to [email protected]

JCU aquaculture association
BSB: 064 819
ACC: 1052 9835

We hope to see you all at our club events through out the year! 😆

Keep an eye out for our semester calendar 👀

‼️JOIN US ‼️

Get ready for an exciting year of events!!! 🍻🦐🐟

A $10 fee gets you membership for the year, and access to all our free events! Members also get discounted prices for selected events.

Transfer your membership fee to the club using the details below, and email a screenshot along with a photo of your student ID to [email protected]

JCU aquaculture association
BSB: 064 819
ACC: 1052 9835

We hope to see you all at our club events through out the year! 😆

Keep an eye out for our semester calendar 👀

Thanks everyone for coming out last night, it was such a blast!🍻

Stay tuned for some more social events coming up shortly! 🐟🐟

Hey Guys!! Details are up for our upcoming pub crawl 🏏🏅

Plan is to meet at flinders social at 7pm where we’ll have a bar tab running/2 for 1 drinks and then make our way to the surprise venue, the courtyard and lastly FLNDRS!

As always there will be prizes for best dressed so be sure to put your best swimsuit, jersey or boxing gloves on🎽

Link in bio for tickets or scan the QR code🏅

Hi everyone! Save the date for our upcoming pub crawl ⚽️🏏🏅more details to come this week 🍻

Come and join us for an industry night hosted by CSTFA and John Moloney from Tassal 🦐

Hi Everyone!
I hope you are all well. You are invited to attend a celebration of Aquaculture through a Shrimp Day celebration on Wednesday May 10th in the Green Shed near Building 32 from 12-1.15pm.

There will be a short Shrimp day team challenge (3-4 per team) with an extremely prestigious award. Participation in the team event is optional but note the extremely prestigious award previously mentioned.

The award ceremony will be followed by a lunch of farmed tiger prawns kindly provided by Australian Prawn Farms (located at Ilbilbie, just south of Sarina).

This will be a disposable plate/napkin free event. Prawns will be served with lettuce replacing plates and a variety of sauces and dips.

Soap and water will be available to wash your hands.

I hope you are able to attend and enjoy!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are each well. You are all invited to attend a celebration of Aquaculture through a Shrimp Day celebration on Wednesday May 10th in the Green Shed near Building 32 from 12-1.15pm.

There will be a short Shrimp day team challenge (3-4 per team) with an extremely prestigious award. Participation in the team event is optional but note the extremely prestigious award previously mentioned.

The award ceremony will be followed by a lunch of farmed tiger prawns kindly provided by Australian Prawn Farms (located at Ilbilbie, just south of Sarina).

This will be a disposable plate/napkin free event. Prawns will be served with lettuce replacing plates and a variety of sauces and dips.

Soap and water will be available to wash your hands.

I hope you are able to attend and enjoy!

Hey guys! Because this weekend is Easter Weekend, we have decided to post pone Trivia until a later date when more people can make it! Stay tuned to keep up to date! Happy Easter 🐣🐣

Want to get hands on and help carry out some cool science?

Volunteer with us!



James Cook University Townsville
JCU Aquaculture Association

Some pics from last night! Thanks everyone for coming out, was so much fun!! 🍻🤠

Stay tuned for more social events coming up soon! 🐟😄

Hey guys! 🤠

Tomorrow is the day!
Just a couple things to remember;
- Starting at 5.30pm at Uni Bar
- Bring your ID
- The bus leaves uni bar at 6.30 sharp so make sure you’re around
- After the bus to Tiny Mountain we are walking so wear comfy shoes
- Prizes for best dressed, so don’t forget your hat!

If you can’t make it anymore let us know and we can resell your ticket!

Keen to see everyone there 🍻

Here’s the line up for our pub crawl on Friday the 17th of March! Should be a great night with lots of drink deals lined up around some of Townsville’s best watering holes! Don’t forgot to dress up as a cowgirl/ cowboy, free drink to best dressed! The link is now active for tickets and posted down below 👇 Tickets are limited so get in quick!

https://www.trybooking.com/CGNLF

Thanks to everyone for coming out to the bbq this afternoon! Was so nice to meet some new people and the weather couldn’t have been better 🏊‍♀️🌭

Stay tuned this week for more info on our Pub Crawl coming up on the 17th of March! It’s shaping up to be a cracker 🍻

A big thankyou to everyone who attended our AGM today!

The seafood BBQ was delicious - compliments to the chefs, Alma and Paul!

Phoebe's trivia Q's had everyone guessing what the chances are of striking gold with barramundi!

Congratulations to those elected. We almost have our 2023 executive team finalised. We still need a Vice President and Treasurer as Alma and Jon are unable to continue in those roles next year. Anyone is welcome to apply! Please email [email protected]

President - Max Garrett
Vice President - ?
Secretary - Chris Peters
Treasurer - ?
Social Rep - Lauren Stuart
Fish Tech - Nicole Sallis

See you at our next event 🐟🦐

Fellow Aquaculturists,

We would like to give all members of this facebook group the opportunity to participate in AQA social events! For this we need to update our member register and will require you email!
Please fill in the linked google form. It will take you less than a minute and it will allow us to more easily organise future club events.

Quick Reminder: This is not a student only association! Even if you have graduated and work in industry, you are still welcome! (please fill in the form if you are interested)

AQA Email List We are updating our email list. This will help us organise events more effectively in the future.

Hi AQA people,

We are looking to elect new executive members to lead the association in 2023! The election will be held at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2022 on the 17th of October.

Being part of the 2023 AQA exec committee is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills (teamwork, planning and management of events and members, etc.) and gain recognition from JCU lecturers and industry liaisons –> potential future career opportunities.

If you would like to step up and help organise AQA membership, events, & networking please send an email to [email protected]. Its not a job application so a couple sentences will do - briefly describe yourself and the position you are most interested in. Applications for all positions are open now and will close at the start of the AGM.

If you would like more information please message or email us. 🦐🐟

Thank you for all of those who joined us last Friday for our epic pub crawl. It was awesome seeing everyone show up and having a great night. Stay tuned for more upcoming social events 🐟🐟🐟

Hello beautiful people! Just a reminder to come join us at Unibar today 3pm for a cold beer and a nice chat ☺️☺️ see you all there!

JCU Aquaculture Association updated their business hours.