larvi 2024
8th Fish & Shellfish Larviculture Symposium
September 9-12, 2024
Ostend, Belgium


PROGRAMME

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At a glance

Monday September 9

  • Registration of participants at the Conference Center and setting up of posters from 9.30am onwards.
  • Official Opening Session at 5.30pm with keynote presentations:
    • “More arguments for microbial management in aquaculture hatcheries” by Kari Attramadal, on behalf of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
    • “Status of marine fish and shellfish hatcheries around the world” by Patrick Waty, Head of Benchmark Advanced Nutrition, CEO INVE Aquaculture
  • Welcome reception

Tuesday September 10

  • SESSION I. BROODSTOCK MANAGEMENT, MATURATION AND SPAWNING
    zootechniques, nutrition, egg and larval quality, domestication, sperm quality, genetics, germplasm preservation, genomics and proteomics, transgenics and GMOs, ...
  • SESSION II. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY AND DEFORMITIES
    ontogeny, developmental biology, behavior, …
  • SESSION III. LARVICULTURE AT COMMERCIAL SCALE
    culture systems, environmental requirements, socio-economic aspects, …

Wednesday September 11

  • SESSION III LARVICULTURE AT COMMERCIAL SCALE
    culture systems, environmental requirements, socio-economic aspects, …
  • SESSION IV.  LARVAL NUTRITION
    nutritional requirements, feeding schemes, live food and its substitutes, …

Thursday September 12

  • SESSION V. MICROBIAL MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTH
    prebiotics, probiotics, diseases and pathogens, viral and bacterial challenge tests, vaccination, phage therapy, …
  • Session summaries & concluding remarks
  • Symposium Banquet