EcoAqua Summer School – Ecosystem based Aquaculture

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)

2015 EcoAqua Workshop

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

Submit your abstract to AE2015

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.

AE2014 Summary Report

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.

Study Report on EU aquaculture for the European Parliament

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

Job vacancies at FAI Ardtoe Marine research Facility

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.

EAS honours Michael New and Yves Harache

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.

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AE2014: REPORT on the Performance of the sea bass and sea bream sector

During the AE2014 event in Donostia - San Sebastian, EAS and EATiP co-organised a special one-day event to address the production performance of the sea bass and sea bream sector by providing a forum for discussion of some of the important technical challenges that underlie production performance.
The event brought together our scientific and production knowledge to help better explain and understand the issues that may contribute to this position, so as to facilitate cooperation and actions to solve them. The full report of this succesful event is available by clicking on the cover photo.