The next OrAqua project meeting will take place in Rotterdam on the 19 and 20 of October back to back with Aquaculture Europe 2015.
For info contact : Jean-Paul Blancheton – Ifremer. E-mail : Jean.Paul.Blancheton@ifremer.fr
Info on the project is available on the Oraqua website: www.oraqua.eu
The pikeperch workshop organized by the European Percid Fish Culture (EPFC) thematic group will be held just before Aquaculture Europe 2015.
More information here (PDF)
ADVANCES IN SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE PROCEDURES
The four-day event will facilitate discussion and exchange of information between European Research Area members, specially the ones from Overseas Regions and Overseas Countries and territories on current aquaculture issues dealing with marine spatial planning, ecosystem interactions and aquaculture development in coastal areas.
This scientific and technical course will be organized around specific modules focusing on:
Aquaculture Development in Coastal Areas; Health and Welfare; Breeding and Genetics; Marine Spatial Planning; Ecosystem Interactions
More info here (pdf)
The EcoAqua Workshop on the Application of an Ecosystem Approach for the development of Sustainable Aquaculture in Overseas Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories will take place in Las Palmas from the 13 to the 16th of July.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
1. Analyse the status and issues of Aquaculture in ORs and OCTs
2. Define Guidelines to foster the Development of Sustainable Aquaculture under an Ecosystem Approach.
More info: http://ecoaqua.ulpgc.es/workshopjuly15
Its time to submit your abstract to our AE2015 event in Rotterdam in October. You can see the proposed list of sessions here and if you submit before the deadline of MAY 1 you will have more chance of having an oral presentation slot (if that is your preference). You can submit online here.
The AE2014 is now available here. The document summarises the reports of the AE2014 Parallel Sessions as received by the session chairs. Information is also provided on the opening ceremony and the show cooking event organised on the opening day and the winners of the AE2014 Poster Awards, as designated by the Session Chairs and Programme co-chairs, as well as the winners of the AquaTT and Aqualex Multimedia Consortium Lindsay Laird Award and the EAS Student Group Ibrahim Okumus Award.
EAS (Alistair Lane), FEAP (Courtney Hough) and University of Stirling (John Bostock) have recently completed a study requested by the European Parliament that provides an assessment of the impact, economic and ecological, of increased growth of the European aquaculture sector by identifying the challenges to growth and how these may be overcome.
Get the report
FAI are looking to appoint a Manager and Trials Assistant for the Fish Health Unit at their research facility in Ardtoe, Scotland. More details here.
At the opening session of its Aquaculture Europe 2014 event in Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain on October 14th, the European Aquaculture Society (EAS ) gave its Honorary Life Membership Award to Michael New and its Distinguished Service Award to Yves Harache, for their long-term contributions to the development of aquaculture and the activities of the Society. AE2014 was attended by almost 1500 participants from 71 countries, making it the biggest Aquaculture Europe event to date.
