To help commercial fishermen improve their operation and maintenance of onboard marine refrigeration systems, the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program and Washington Sea Grant are partnering with Integrated Marine Systems, Inc., to offer a series of one-day workshops.

The workshops will focus on how to maintain, operate, and troubleshoot onboard refrigeration equipment. Additional topics include refrigeration theory, system winterisation, controller programming, refrigeration safety, and system sizing. Participants will use a marine refrigeration training unit for hands-on activities.

Workshop dates

Alaska workshops:

Petersburg: Tuesday 1 February (to sign up online visit http://seagrant.uaf.edu/map/workshops/)

Anchorage: Tuesday 29 March (to sign up contact Torie Baker at torie@sfos.uaf.edu)

Port Townsend workshops:

Saturday 12 March or Saturday 16 April (to sign up contact Sarah Fisken at sfisken@u.washington.edu)