REGISTER BY 1 MAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DISCOUNTED REGISTRATION
for World Aquaculture Adelaide 2014 (WAA14) - please register online at www.aquaculture.org.au. (International
delegates register at www.was.org.)
The 2014 Program is shaping up day by day with information being
updated regularly online. See the Session Highlights outlined below for a
summary on just some of the sessions on offer at WAA14.
Sessions by Day - https://www.was.org/WAA14/_documents/WAA2014Sessions.pdf
Program Grid - https://www.was.org/WAA14/_documents/WAA2014ProgramGrid.pdf
SESSION HIGHLIGHTS
Alliance Against Hunger & Malnutrition –
Aquaculture Without Frontiers
Hunger
and poverty are words we often hear, but have little — if any — personal
experience with. Yet for a large part of the world, it is part of the daily
struggle for life.
One in eight people in the world, (around 850 million) are
currently estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger and regularly not
getting enough food to conduct an active life. Almost all of them live in
developing countries but even in developed countries there are pockets of
people stuck in a poverty circle. In developed countries, Food and Agriculture
Organization 2012 figures put the number of undernourished people at 16
million.
Aquaculture Without Frontiers (AwF) was created at a WAS event, has
been nurturing activities to tackle food security issues by helping communities
and individuals to set up their own hatcheries and fish farms to alleviate
hunger and to provide a much needed income so they can grow.
China - Aquaculture Research in China
There will be four special sessions focused on aquaculture
research in China, including: Freshwater Aquaculture and Environmental Impact,
Genetics and Breeding of Freshwater Fishes, Integrated Multi-Trophic
Aquaculture (IMTA), and Molluscan Genetics and Genomes. Chinese research will
also be featured in the Algal Aquaculture and Biology session.
Climate Change Ready – Management Strategies for the Future
This session will explore our understanding of changes in
weather and climate conditions, with real-time monitoring and modelling, to
support aquaculture business management decisions.
Effective Engagement in Policy Development
This session looks at the regulatory environment for
aquaculture and the focus to promote sustainable aquaculture production.
It covers the importance of effective engagement of all stakeholders and
explores strategies, models, case studies and examples inclusive of regulators,
industry, scientific and broader communities, to ensure industry growth meets
economic, social and ecologically sustainable outcomes.
Freshwater Prawns (Macrobrachium)
Annual global production from freshwater prawn farming exceeds
475,000 tonnes. This important session includes papers from Australia, Brazil,
Chile, Germany, India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines and
the USA. Presentations embrace monoculture and polyculture grow-out in ponds,
cages and RAS; nutrition; and new monosex technology that greatly increase
future production potential in this sector.
Genetic Futures – How Might the Business of Genetics and
Breeding Unfold?
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There is great demand and
potential for increasing world aquaculture production and efficiency. Selective
breeding has been shown to be one of the most effective tools that we can
utilise to improve the biological efficiency of production. However, less than
10% of world aquaculture production is based on genetically improved stocks.
This is probably because of the large upfront costs of establishing selective
breeding programs of a scale and complexity that will produce beneficial
outcomes (strong genetic improvement in key economic traits), because of the
relatively small size of our current aquaculture industries and willingness to
pay for improved stock (smaller scale and less revenue compared to livestock) and
because of the large numbers of different species under production, each
requiring their own breeding program and specialised knowledge base.
There are
however an increasing number of mature breeding programs in aquaculture that
have moved out of the realms of R&D and are being
commercialised. This session draws on international
experiences regarding the commercial establishment, ownership and running of
selective breeding programs. The speakers will consider a range of business and
“cooperative” type models for running selective breeding programs. Where are we
at now? What has worked well? What has not gone so well? What could be better
done in the future? How does the selective breeding entity provide access to
industry while protecting investment in the creation of genetically improved
stock? Can a selective breeding business be a profitable venture in itself?
Advantages/disadvantages of multi-species selective breeding businesses? What
does an investor look for? What are the potential benefits for industry from a
well-run profitable selective breeding entity?
GILLS – Seafood & Health
GILLS was created from the Seafood & Health Conference
which took place in Melbourne in 2010 and has continued to nurture, grow and
communicate about the importance of Seafood & Health ever since.
Governments
are keen to talk about preventative health but backing up those words is
difficult because it means a new paradigm in thinking and understanding. Issues
about Human Nutrition are now on the FAO COFI agendas so discussions relating
to advisory positions are now in the open thus it is important for the industry
and others involved to consider steps to support the great advantage that the
health marketing angle gives seafood.
Increasing seafood consumption is an
imperative but changing habits is difficult. Many of these issues will be
discussed by a strong group of local and international speakers.
Opportunity, Investment and Trade Day
Room 8 on Tuesday 10 June will be occupied by a plethora of
international and local speakers presenting on Business Opportunities &
Investment followed by Marketing & Trade. This means a full day’s activity
covering all financial and marketing/trade issues of global seafood.
Two of the
major agricultural banks (Rabobank & NAB Asia) are participating along with
World Fish Centre, Austrade and country specific speakers from Norway, Vietnam
and Sri Lanka. A recent report regarding Disasters & Opportunities in seven
Asian countries will be discussed and the whole session is rounded up with a
panel on the specific aquaculture capabilities of Australia’s states and
territories and the opportunities for investors to partner or engage.
The
afternoon has many topics covering benchmarking, retailing, traceability,
exporting and all areas of ASEAN are embraced culminating in a panel which
expects to be challenged by the audience.
Ornamental Aquaculture
Ornamental
aquaculture, although still at the infant stage, continues to grow and as
knowledge increases, the species that are being successfully bred continues to
diversify. At WAA14, we look at new techniques, the importance of larval foods,
new species and the involvement of Public Aquariums. We will also look at the
risks of importing fish and using antibiotics.
Social Licence to Operate: Create, Nurture and Grow
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Social licence is generally agreed to be the level of
acceptance or approval continually granted to an organisation’s operations or
project by local community and other stakeholders – it can’t be bought and it
can’t be sold – that’s what makes it so elusive. Although the term may have
been about for a number of years in some industries, it has only become
spotlighted more generally in recent years, with recognition such as that given
it by Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald in relation to industries other than
traditional mining and similar land based extractive activities: “A company's
social licence to operate is intangible but it is very, very real. And it can
be taken away in the blink of an eye. Increasingly, profitable and otherwise
successful businesses are having their real-world operations suspended or shut
down as a response to moral shortcomings.” (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
July 18, 2011). This attention is now spilling over to the use of other natural
resources in both the common domain as well as those that may affect the common
domain of land and water. Consequently fishing activities including
aquaculture, now, if not already, can expect to receive attention in regard to
what these industries are doing to secure and retain their social licence.
Presenters will discuss methods identifying and demonstrating how to create an
environment conducive to developing the social licence of an industry or
business, the needs and means to not only maintain and nurture that licence,
but also to grow it in line with a business’s or industry’s needs.
Spatial Planning: What to Grow Where and How to Manage it Once
it’s There
This session provides the
opportunity to present information that will help farmers and regulators better
understand the risks (ecological and social) associated with development of
aquaculture operations in any given area. Effective spatial planning requires
an understanding of both species performance requirements and limitations in
the selected environment. The ability to incorporate such information into GIS
and other predictive modelling approaches can provide invaluable decision
support tools for managers. Relevant and cost-effective spatial planning can
ensure future aquaculture development is both environmentally and economically
sustainable.
Tuna
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Two tuna sessions will
focus on ranching and propagation of juveniles from eggs. Ranching will
explore the status of international tuna fisheries, with an emphasis on
Southern Bluefin Tuna biomass assessment and environmental impacts on
migration, then examine tuna ranching in a global context, including production
techniques (feeding and diets, physiology and product quality) and health
management. The hatchery propagation session will cover broodstock management,
larval husbandry and development, and approaches to tackling bottlenecks in
juvenile production. The tuna sessions will be complemented by a field trip to
Port Lincoln.
Yellowtail
Whilst
in Japan yellowtail is a long established aquaculture industry, yellowtail
farming is a young industry outside of Japan. Seafood CRC has sponsored
this session and presents some research for contribution to the improvement of
yellowtail farming.
The session covers larval rearing, broodstock, nutrition,
and post-harvest.
For further information, please contact:
Sarah-Jane Day
Conference Coordinator
World Aquaculture Adelaide
2014
7-11 June 2014
Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia
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