Workshop on environmental issues of marine fish farming in the Mediterranean
20 October 2004 
Barcelona, Spain

From: "Patrick White" <pwhite@hol.gr>
To: <aqua-l-digest@killick.mi.mun.ca>
Sent: April 16, 2004

This is a 1-day workshop organised in connection with the Aquaculture Europe 2004.
Scope and objectives:
Marine aquaculture has experienced a considerable development in Europe in the last decades and several EU-projects have been funded to investigate the environmental effects and provide tools for management and suggestions for future directions of the industry. The scope of this workshop is to present the most recent results and recommendations obtained from the EU-projects MedVeg, MERAMED and BIOFAQS. The workshop will focus on new directions in monitoring, management tools and bioremediation techniques.

Following topics will be addressed at the workshop
- Use of bio-assays to monitor release of nutrients in the Mediterranean
- Effects of Mediterranean fish farming on the seagrass Posidonia oceanica
- Monitoring of seagrasses around Mediterranean fish farms
- Predicting impacts on seagrass meadows through modelling
- Sensitive tools to detect organic enrichment of fish farm sediments (use of meio- and macrofauna) in the Mediterranean
- Comparison of aquaculture monitoring methodologies in the Mediterranean
- Modelling cage aquaculture impacts in the Mediterranean
- Measurable aquaculture impacts in the Mediterranean
- Cage aquaculture and wild fish interactions in the Mediterranean
- MERAMED recommended monitoring methods for the Mediterranean
- The succession dynamics of naturally settled mixed heterotrophic and autotrophic communities and their potential for nutrient capture in differing environments
- The economics of biofiltration
- The potential for a secondary harvest using co-culture in differing
environments

The aim of the workshop is to bring together scientist, managers, authorities, fish farmers, industry and the public to stimulate an exchange of knowledge on the environmental issues. The workshop will be organised with oral and poster sessions and time will be reserved to stimulate questions and discussions during the day. The workshop is free of charge.

The workshop will be located at the University of Barcelona (UB) in the nice city of Barcelona. UB is in walking distance from the EAS Conference Center.

If you would like to register to attend the workshop, please contact:

Marianne Holmer, holmer@biology.sdu.dk
or
Patrick White, pwhite@hol.gr

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