Calendar

11 - 14 May, 2008
Aquaculture Canada 2008
Location: Saint John, New Brunswick
The Aquaculture Association of Canada's annual conference.

13 - 14 May, 2008
7th Practical Short Course
Location: Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, USA
Contact phone: +32 51 311 274
Contact: Dr Ignace Debruyne
7th Practical Short Course:
Aquaculture Feed Extrusion, Nutrition & Feed Formulation

18 - 21 May, 2008
The 1st International Congress of Seafood Technology
Location: Izmir, Turkey
This congress aims at forming a platform for efficient discussion among the academics from all over the world. It will be an opportunity for the international community to exchange ideas and develop a common vision for the future of World Seafood Technology.

The participants will be the representatives of national and international seafood commercial sectors, researchers from international seafood institutes and the representative of Turkish government. The language of the congress will be English.

19 - 23 May, 2008
WORLD AQUACULTURE 2008
Location: Busan, Korea
The annual Conference and Exhibiton on Aquaculture organised by the WAS
and the Korean Aquaculture Society.

19 - 23 May, 2008
Advanced Course, Fish Nutrition: Sustainability and Product Quality
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Contact phone: +34 976 716000
Contact: Instituto Agronómico Mediterráneo de Zaragoza
This course is organised to cover aspects with particular emphasis in Mediterranean species.

20 - 21 May, 2008
Shellfish Association of Great Britain Annual Conference
Location: Fishmonger's Hall, London
Contact phone: 020 7283 8305
Contact: Lorraine
The annual conference, dinner and AGM of the Shellfish Association of Great Britain.

21 - 22 May, 2008
AquacultureUK2008
Location: The Aviemore Conference Centre
Contact phone: 0044 862892188
Contact: David Mack
AquacultureUK2008 is a new international exhibition being held at the Aviemore Conference Centre in the Highlands of Scotland.

28 - 30 May, 2008
Tuna 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

03 - 05 June, 2008
ACUI 2008
Location: Vilagarcia de Arousa, Spain

08 - 10 June, 2008
SEAFOODplus Conference
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
SEAFOODplus is an Integrated Research Project supported by the EU under FP6, which objective is to reduce health problems and to increase well-being among European consumers by applying the benefits obtained through consumption of health promoting and safe seafood products of high quality. The Fifth Open SEAFOODplus Conference will be the last in the present project period of SEAFOODplus and will present results obtained 2004 – 2008, presented by the SEAFOODplus scientists and industries.

11 - 12 June, 2008
AquAgriS Project Workshop
Location: Lecce, Italy
Contact: Vincenzo
The AquAgriS Project, which is funded by the European Commission under the FP6 “Food Quality and Safety” initiative, is researching where the European Union and selected countries are - with respect to the legislation and research activities in the management of waste materials produced by the farming, fisheries and aquaculture industries. The workshop in Italy will have several guest speakers who specialise in the field of waste water and waste water management, as well as speakers from the AquAgriS project who will report of specific issues researched by the project. The workshop will be open to all who have specific interests in aquaculture and fisheries and will be free to all participants.

12 - 14 June, 2008
Vietfish 2008
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

12 - 13 June, 2008
PROFET POLICY – Mediterranean Fisheries Workshop
Location: Marseille, France
The next Profet Policy Workshop – on Mediterranean Fisheries - will be held in Marseille, France on June 12-13.

15 - 17 June, 2008
Rapid Test Workshop on Marine Toxins, Cyanotoxins, Mycotoxins, Histamine, and Antibiotic Residues
Location: Seattle, USA
Contact: James Hungerford
Workshop goals are 1) Overview of principles of ELISA, 2) Survey of available ELISA and LFIC kits including some hands-on sessions, 3) Discussions of testing needs and challenges involved, and 4) Training in basic lab techniques of using microplate-based methods.

21 - 27 June, 2008
Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology and International Conference on Applied Phycology
Location: Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
The 3rd Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology and the 11th International Conference on Applied Phycology will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway and will be hosted by the Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway. The overall title of this conference is “Applied Phycology in the 21st Century; novel opportunities in a changing world”.

22 - 27 June, 2008
(Shell)Fish Immunology Workshop 10th anniversary
Location: Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Contact: fish.workshop@wur.nl
The objective of the workshop is to provide participants with advanced knowledge, both theoretical and practical, on the immune system of fish and shellfish. Emphasis will be placed on innate and acquired, cellular immunity, but also on immune modulation and future developments in fish immunology.

06 - 11 July, 2008
Symposium: Coping with Global Change in Marine Social-Ecological Systems
Location: Rome, Italy
The recent 4th Assessment Reports of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified a number of climate-related changes that are very likely to occur to marine systems in the near future. In addition, global changes are taking place in human systems which impact the oceans, including intensive fishing and globalisation of trade.

Marine ecosystem changes have impacts on, and consequences for, the human communities that depend on these systems, and how these human communities respond to these changes can have reciprocal impacts on marine ecosystems. Understanding the important issues and collaborating with other disciplines is essential for correctly interpreting the causes and dealing with the consequences of global changes in marine social-ecological systems. The central goals of the symposium are to share experiences across disciplines and to identify key next steps and common elements and approaches that promote resilience of marine social-ecological systems in the face of global changes.

29 - 31 July, 2008
14th Annual FWS Aquaculture Drug Approval Coordination Workshop
Location: Bozeman, MT
Contact phone: 406-994-9913
Contact: Niccole Lawson
The workshop will include presentations and discussions on the status of all ongoing aquaculture drug approval activities, with representation from federal, state, tribal, and private partners, and from groups involved in aquatic animal drug approval efforts. Detailed information, including registration, activities, lodging, maps and directions can be found at: www.fws.gov/fisheries/aadap

03 - 06 August, 2008
Australasian Aquaculture 2008
International conference and trade show.

04 - 07 August, 2008
32nd Annual Larval Fish Conference
Location: Kiel, Germany

04 - 08 August, 2008
International Association of Astacology 17 Symposium
Location: Kuopio, Finland
Contact: Japo Jussila

25 - 29 August, 2008
Fourth International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Science
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The general theme of this symposium is to emphasize GIS as a tool for conducting spatial analyses in aquatic sciences, which encompasses the ecosystem approach to fisheries management and the interrelationships between inland and marine fisheries and aquaculture, and the aquatic and terrestrial environments in which the activities take place.

The deadline of the registration and the submission of the abstract is June 15.

06 - 09 September, 2008
International Conference on Fish Diseases and Fish Immunology
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Contact: Bjarnheidur K. Gudmunsdotti
The aim of this conference is to gather scientists from all parts of the world to discuss the recent developments in the field. The understanding of infectious fish diseases and the causative agents, like viruses, bacteria and parasites, has been growing fast lately in the international scientific society. In parallel there is an increasing knowledge on host-pathogen interaction.

15 - 18 September, 2008
AQUACULTURE EUROPE 2008
Location: Krakow, Poland
Contact: European Aquaculture Society
The annual Conference and Exhibition on Aquaculture of the European Aquaculture society.

29 September - 01 October, 2008
Aqua Vision 2008
Location: Stavanger, Norway
The theme for this year’s conference is “Know the Fundamentals – Create Your Future”. This world aquaculture business forum is a place to network, identify and discuss future challenges, and exchange information and ideas.

07 - 09 October, 2008
Conxemar
Location: Vigo, Spain

12 - 14 October, 2008
8th International Symposium in Tilapia on Aquaculture
Location: Cairo, Egypt
The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MOLAR) of Egypt represented by the Central Laboratory for Aquaculture Research (CLAR), Abbassa in cooperation with American Tilapia Association (ATA) and some international and national organizations will organise the 8th International symposium in Tilapia on Aquaculture (ista8) "Tilapia Aquaculture from the Pharaohs to the Future" at the Cairo International Conference and Exhibition Centre from 12-14 October 2008.

23 - 24 October, 2008
Annual Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers International Conference
Location: TBC
Each year, the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers (ASSG) holds its International Conference, addressing areas of concern to both growers and others with an interest or involvement in the coastal environment.
The theme of the 2008 event is 'water quality'.

05 - 07 November, 2008
IMPASSE Conference “Managing Alien Species for Sustainable Development of Aquaculture and Fisheries”
Location: Florence, Italy
The project IMPASSE “Environmental impacts of alien species in aquaculture” was funded within the EU's Sixth Framework Program for Research and Technological Development in order to address the EC’s need for a thorough evaluation of the potential impacts of non-indigenous species in aquaculture. The main objective of the final international conference “Managing Alien Species for Sustainable Development of Aquaculture and Fisheries” (MALIAF) of the project is to present IMPASSE’s results to the scientific community, administrators, and stakeholders, but also to extend the discussion on the strategies needed to develop sustainable and profitable aquaculture and fisheries across the world.

25 - 27 November, 2008
ASIAFISH 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

15 - 18 February, 2009
Aquaculture America 2009
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

25 - 29 May, 2009
WORLD AQUACULTURE 2009
Location: Veracruz, Mexico

01 - 05 March, 2010
AQUACULTURE 2010