Press release on Aquaculture Europe 2004

Aquaculture Europe 2004, Biotechnologies for quality

Barcelona, Spain,
October 20-23, 2004

with a one-day workshop on "Challenges in Mediterranean Aquaculture Products", 
October 20, 2004

From October 20-23, 2004, Barcelona (Spain) will be the meeting place for the Aquaculture Europe 2004 conference on "Biotechnologies for Quality".
Preceding the conference, on October 20, a workshop on "Challenges for Mediterranean Aquaculture Products" will take place. This event is
organised by the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) in joint cooperation with The European Association of Marine Biotechnology (ESMB) and the European Association of Fish Pathologists (EAFP). It furthermore enjoys the moral support of some major Aquaculture Societies in Europe.

Food quality and safety is a high priority in Europe and worldwide, and aquaculture must play its role in providing safe, high-quality,
health-promoting seafood through safe and environmentally friendly production methods, based upon scientific advances in plant and animal science and biotechnologies, including the application of genomics.

AE2004 "Biotechnologies for Quality" wants to provide an open forum on recent advances in different biotechnologies and their impact on the
improvement and guarantee of seafood quality. It wants to be a most interesting meeting place for the aquaculture sector to increase knowledge, exchange ideas and draw conclusions on the challenges required for the present and future.

Aquaculture Europe 2004 will be organised through plenary thematic sessions addressing the role of biotechnology in areas of production and quality, health management, quality of fish as food and the development of bioactive products from aquaculture.
The parallel and poster sessions will focus on topics including genetics and reproduction; production of larvae and juveniles; ongrowing; rapid
health detection methods; vaccines; health management, consumer satisfaction and health benefits; safety and traceability and bioactive
products through aquaculture, as well as other challenges for aquaculture development.
Full details, including call for contributions (deadline March 15) , registration form, etc. can be obtained from
http://www.easonline.org/agenda/en/AquaEuro2004/default.asp
A paper version of the 1st announcement can be obtained by sending request to ae2004@aquaculture.cc

The meeting will be hosted at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

More information:

www.easonline.org or ae2004@aquaculture.cc

fax:  +32 59 32 10 05.

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