UK – For the first time, a full day’s discussion on aquaculture features at Oceanology International, the world’s largest exhibition for marine science and technology taking place Tuesday 11 – Thursday 13 March 2014 at London’s ExCeL.
This reflects the growing importance of this industry in the marine environment and heralds opportunities for technology transfer.
Chaired by Dr Neil Auchterlonie as Programme Director Aquaculture and Food Security, Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, a role developing science and providing technical advice to Defra, and Professor Peter Davies of the Department of Civil Engineering, Dundee University with interests in fluid mechanics in relation to aquaculture systems, the aquaculture ‘panel discussion’ session takes place on Wednesday 12 March, and, like all the component parts of Oceanology International, is free to attend.
Looking forward to Oceanology International, the Co-Chairs said: “This is enormously exciting, and reflects aquaculture’s position as the fastest growing protein sector with an average annual growth rate of 6.9 per cent globally, according to the FAO. Other strategic initiatives for aquaculture development have been developed, or are developing, at the EU level, and within the UK, where the sector is well placed to support domestic food production and rural development agenda.
“This inaugural OI session will be focused on promoting collaboration between academia, aquaculture industry, and other marine industry, in areas where there are opportunities for technology transfer. As a relatively young industry, we see that there are likely to be some advances to be made in aquaculture through the adoption of some of the technology from other marine industry, rather than develop industry-specific solutions to some of the issues that are faced…
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