Fish farming

A two-day conference, due to be held in Malta next week, will focus on developments in offshore mariculture, from FishFarmer magazine:

OFFSHORE fish farming is a major growth area and has been tipped by industry experts as one of the top four trends likely to shape the industry’s future. This dimension will come sharply into focus at Offshore Mariculture 2006, to be held in Malta from October 11-13. The event will give an international review of developments in the offshore context and relate them to the conditions experienced in European waters. The topic has recently attracted a lot of interest. In 2004 BIM held the Farming the Deep Blue conference in Ireland. It was attended by 250 delegates from 25 countries. Furthermore, there was a great deal of interest in the offshore aquaculture sessions at AQUA 2006 in Florence.

The Offshore Mariculture conference is a three-day event featuring an international two-day conference and exhibition, and a fish farm visit in order to explore the feasibility of farming the oceans beyond the territorial seas. The conference has an impressive line-up with speakers from Malta, Ireland, the US, South Korea, Canada, the UK, Norway, Brussels, Denmark and Hawaii. Malta is a particularly apt location for hosting the conference. It is ideally placed as a deep water centre for fish farming in the Mediterranean and balances the need for a clean maritime environment for fish farming with its function as a centre for commercial shipping...