The event, which will be held online, will bring together for five days the most prominent researchers in Marine Resources and Aquaculture in Iberoamerica, presenting more than 220 scientific works in poster and oral format
The ULPGC’s top research center will be the national venue during the World Aquaculture Day, which is celebrated every year on November 30, by designation of the Spanish Aquaculture Society (SEA)
The University Institute for Research in Sustainable Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (ECOAQUA) of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will be this year’s main organizer of FIRMA 2023, the XII Ibero-American Forum on Marine Resources and Aquaculture, to be held from Monday, November 27 to Friday, December 1.
This is one of the most important academic-scientific events in the world, since its creation in 2007, for sharing the most important studies and debates on marine biodiversity and aquaculture with companies, institutions, associations and society in general.
‘The sustainability of aquatic resources and aquaculture in the framework of the blue economy’ will be the central slogan of this international forum, which already has more than 6,000 registrations, and whose organizing committee is chaired by Juan Manuel Afonso, director of the Aquaculture Research Group (GIA) of ECOAQUA. Also participating in this committee are Marisol Izquierdo López, vice-rector of Research and Transfer and professor specialized in Aquaculture of the ULPGC, who is also a member of GIA, and Nieves González-Henríquez, doctor in Marine Biology and director of research in Molecular Biology in the Faculty of Marine Sciences of the ULPGC.
ECOAQUA Building, PCTM
ECOAQUA will lead FIRMA 2023 leading four of the eleven technical sessions that the forum will include. Throughout the five days of the meeting, there will be more than 50 presentations, six master classes, specialization and training courses in areas of interest, the presentation of more than 220 scientific papers in poster or oral format and a photography contest, to which more than 200 photographs have already been submitted, which will nourish an intense week that can be followed live online from all corners of the planet.
Lluís Serra, rector of the ULPGC, will take part in the inauguration, accompanied by Humberto Villarreal, president of the World Aquaculture Association, and Manuel Barange, director of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the FAO, as well as by some rectors of other ibero-american universities.
The inaugural conference will be given by François Simard, fisheries advisor to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (UICN), and will be entitled: ‘Aquaculture and Nature Conservation, current trends and innovative approaches’.
Professors, researchers, students, professionals, aquaculture and fishing industry associations, NGOs and the general public can still apply for registration through the official website of the event and have free access to all the activities included in the program.
It will be possible thanks to the support of different organizations, such as the Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research of Chile (INCAR), the North American Renderers Association (NARA), the Foundation for Tuna Conservation in the Pacific Ocean, TunaCons; the Foundation for Marine Spatial Planning, MarViva, or the Association of Shrimp Producers of Venezuela (Asoproco), as well as important multinational food companies, aquaculture and biotechnology such as Skretting, Megasupply, Rimfrost or Aqual Gae; and specialized media, such as the IPac Aquaculture magazine, the Acuipesca Publishing Group or the radio and television program Azul Sostenible.
World Aquaculture Day
By designation of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Aquaculture Society (SEA), the facilities of the ECOAQUA Institute in the Marine Science and Technology Park of Taliarte will also be, during the development of the Forum, the official venue for the celebration of the World Aquaculture Day, which will take place next Thursday, November 30, and which will include, among other scheduled actions, two keynote lectures. The first, will be given by Alex Coach, innovation Director of Skretting, and will be called ‘Animal nutrition as the basis of sustainability of global aquaculture’; and the second will be given by Matt Craze, senior editor of Undercurrent News, with the presentation: ‘Global trends in aquaculture developed on land’.
ECOAQUA Building, PCTM
In the middle of both, a round table will also be held, which will focus around the sustainable growth of aquaculture in islands, with the participation of different companies from the aquaculture sector, APROMAR and SEA.
This event, sponsored by BIOASIS Gran Canaria, in turn, will be broadcast live through the platform of the international event of the XII FIRMA ON LINE 2023, under the supervision of the Vice rectorate for Research and Transfer of the ULPGC, which has enabled a link that will be included in the schedule of November 30 of the international event.
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