Main topics

Global and Regional aquaculture status and trends reviews

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Asia and the Pacific
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• North America
• Europe
• Near East and North Africa 
• Global synthesis

 Session themes

• Aquaculture and the environment.
• Enhancing the contribution of aquaculture to poverty alleviation, food security and rural development.
• Improving knowledge, information, R&D and regional cooperation in aquaculture.
• Responding to market demands and challenges: ensuring food safety and quality, economic viability and sectoral diversity.
• Resources, technologies, and services for future aquaculture.
• Sector management and governance in aquaculture.

Thematic topics

• Addressing human capital development and gender issues in aquaculture sector.
• Alleviating poverty through aquaculture: how can we improve?
• Aquaculture and socio-economic growth and development: enabling policies, legal framework and partnership for improved benefits.
• Aquaculture feeds: addressing the long-term sustainability of the sector.
• Consumer assurance: market-based quality schemes, certification and traceability, ecolabeling, retailer specifications.
• Addressing aquaculture - fisheries interactions through the implementation of the ecosystem approach to aquaculture (EAA).
• Facilitating market access for producers: addressing market access requirements, evolving consumer needs, and trends in product development and distribution.
• Information and data needs: a strategy for improving aquaculture statistics.
• Improving aquaculture governance: what is the status and who is responsible for what?
• Improving biosecurity: a necessity for aquaculture sustainability.
• Investing in research, communication, training/extension for responsible aquaculture.
• Investment, insurance and risk management for aquaculture development.
• Novel and emerging technologies: can they contribute to improving aquaculture sustainability?
• Organic aquaculture: the future of expanding niche markets.
• Progressing aquaculture in this knowledge economy through virtual technology and decision-making tools for novel management.
• Promoting responsible use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity for sustainable aquaculture development.
• Protecting small-scale farmers: a reality within a globalise economy?
• Responsible use of resources for sustainable aquaculture.
• Servicing the aquaculture sector: role of state and private sectors.
• Supporting farmer innovations, disseminating indigenous knowledge and aquaculture success stories.