larvi 2013
6th fish & shellfish larviculture symposium
Ghent University, Belgium
2-5 September 2013

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ABOUT LARVI

ORGANIZERS

UGent
NTNU
LARVANET

 

 

 

 

SECRETARIAT

Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center (details)

SCOPE

More than ever expansion of aquaculture will be needed in the coming years to fulfill mankind’s needs for animal proteins, due to the increasing human population, combined with stagnation of yields from capture fisheries. In spite of major successes obtained in a recent past, larviculture of fish and shellfish remains a bottleneck in the industrial farming of several species of commercial interest. This is especially the case in the production of the rapidly growing group of so-called ‘new’ aquaculture species. Contemporary larviculture faces new problems inherent to the diversification of technologies utilized, to ecological and socio-economic considerations, to new and highly challenging microbiological issues etc. But research in this field is also increasingly supported and stimulated by a variety of novel and sophisticated techniques and methodological tools. These allow an unprecedented and often fascinating insight into biological processes. Although they generally raise new research questions, they stand for a major leap forwards as compared to the empirical approach of a relatively recent past.

Capitalising on the previous “larvi” symposia (in ’91, ’95, ’01, ’05, ‘09), the Aquaculture R&D Consortium of Ghent University, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the COST action “LARVANET” have joined again in the organizing committee for “larvi’13” and are inviting the academic as well as the private sector to attend the 6th Fish and Shellfish Larviculture Symposium. Bringing together European and non-European stakeholders, once again the latest progress in the sector will be reviewed, problems identified and avenues for future collaboration explored.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  • Peter Bossier, Kristof Dierckens, Nancy Nevejan, Tom Van de Wiele, Dominique Adriaens, Annemie Decostere, Wim Van Den Broeck, Patrick Sorgeloos - UGent Aquaculture R&D Consortium
  • Jo Arve Alfredsen, Elin Kjørsvik, Yngvar Olsen, Olav Vadstein
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  • Geoff Allan, Wayne O’Connor
    Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, Nelson Bay, NSW, Australia
  • Clara Boglione
    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
  • Ronaldo Cavalli
    Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
  • Luis Conceição 
    Sparos Lda, Faro, Portugal
  • Konrad Dabrowski
    Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Atsushi Hagiwara
    Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
  • Marisol Izquierdo
    Grupo de Investigacion en Acuicultura, ULPGC & ICCM, Canary Islands, Spain
  • Horst Kaiser
    Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
  • Sachi Kaushik
    INRA Fish Nutrition Research Unit, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelles, France
  • Patrick Kestemont
    University of Namur, Belgium
  • Kangsen Mai
    Ocean University of China, Qingdao, PR China
  • Michael Schwarz
    Virginia Tech, Hampton, VA, USA
  • Amos Tandler
    Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Center for Mariculture, Eilat, Israel

SPONSORING

At the occasion of their 30th anniversary INVE Aquaculture will be the gold sponsor for the larvi 2013 conference. More private as well as public organizations are being solicited to sponsor the event. The complete list will be given in future announcements.

Private companies with larviculture-related activities are invited to sponsor this symposium through advertisements in the program booklet and on the larvi 2013 website. Advertising funds will be used for invited speakers and to provide scholarships for researchers from developing countries.