Jul
26
2009
The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia and the Pacific (NACA) and the Department of Fisheries of the Royal Thai Government will co-sponsor the “Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010″.
It will be held from 9-12 June 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand and back-to-back with the 5th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries, Sub-Committee on Aquaculture to take place from 14-18 June 2010.
For more information click here
Jul
06
2009
Aqua Africa are delighted to report that the first batch of Aquaculture Distance Learning DVDs are complete and have been mailed off. The 4-DVDs include voice, text and photographs pertaining to Aquaculture in Africa, providing an excellent and comprehensive exposure to what the aquaculture industry is all about. Send an email to leslie@aquaafrica.co.za to order.
Jul
03
2009
A workshop focusing on Post-larval Capture and Culture (PCC) technology Marine hatchery management will take place in ARDA, Le Port, Reunion Island (½ hour drive from the WIOMSA venue) from 31st, August – 4th, September 2009
The organizers will not charge you for this workshop. ARDA is organising and funding:
- transportation from St Denis to St Gilles on Sunday 30th August
- transportation from the hotel at St Gilles to the conference venue every day of the workshop
- transportation back to St Denis (airport) after the workshop on the 5th of September.
We can fund neither accommodation nor lunch, dinner or refund change in plane tickets.
But if requested, they can book a hotel room for you in St Gilles (35 euros per person per night).
Discussions and/or aquaculture tours if requested by participants offshore aquaculture cages in Saint-Paul Bay, freshwater hatchery, recirculation systems technology in marine hatchery…
If you wish to attend this workshop, please contact Sophie Vermond (sophievermond@hotmail.com) before the 3rd August 2009, explaining your background and why you are interested in this workshop.
they won’t be able to welcome more than 15 persons. Priority will be given to people involved in the development of aquaculture projects or coastal areas management.