Aquaculture Association wins premiers award.

• Position: AROUND THE NORTH

The Northern Ontario Aquaculture Association has received a Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence for its marketing strategy designed to promote the North's fish-farming community.

Based in Little Current, the association advocates for fish farmers across the North, builds awareness of the industry and promotes farm-raised fish as a healthy protein. The association earned the award by developing a comprehensive communications and media strategy, including a new website that offers recipes and prep tips and a new branding logo and brochure.

"Receipt of this award sends out a strong message that fish farming can play an important role in the success of our rural Northern communities, the food processing sector and in the economy of Ontario," Karen Tracey, the association's executive director, said in a news release. "Our aquaculture industry is rich with creators, problem solvers, environmentalists...