The Japanese Society of Fisheries Sciences (JSFS) has awarded Oregon Sea Grant researcher Jae Park and his co-authors an Award of Excellence for their paper, “New approaches for the effective recovery of fish proteins and their physicochemical characteristics” (Y. S. Kim, J. W. Park, and Y. J. Choi, Fisheries Science 69(6), 1231-1239, 2003). The paper won the award for being JSFS’s “most cited” scientific paper over the past five years.

Park plans to travel to Japan to accept the award, which will be announced at the opening ceremony of the JSFS annual meeting at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (Shinagawa Campus), on March 29, 2009.

Along with diplomas of merit, Park and his co-authors will share a prize of 20,000 yen.

For more information about Jae Park and his work with the OSU Seafood Laboratory, visit his Web page.