Fish farmers hope for success at the Lantra awards

Three aquaculture trainees are among the shortlisted contenders for this year’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills, organised by rural skills body Lantra Scotland. The three are Emily Underhill, a Freshwater Fish Health Biologist with Scottish Sea Farms; Derek Ferguson, who is on a Technical Apprenticeship in Aquaculture Management with Grieg Seafood; and Emmanuelle Rey,…

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Seagriculture USA – 7-8 September 2022

Seagriculture 2022 USA gathers top speakers, who will share their know-how within seaweed for feed, food, offshore cultivation, biorefinery of seaweed and much more. This year’s conference will be held in  Portland (ME), USA on 7-8 September 2022. The Seagriculture conference has built up a solid reputation as the leading conference for the Seaweed industry,…

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New aquaculture tech conference set for late summer

A live international conference focusing on aquaculture technology is scheduled to take place in Norway later this year. A group of world leading players in Global Aquaculture Tech Hub (GATH) are arranging the three day event in the port town of Ålesund in central Norway between 6 and 8 September with the aim of addressing challenges facing the…

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Seagriculture 2022 EU gathers top speakers

Seagriculture 2022 EU gathers top speakers, who will share their know-how within seaweed for feed, food, offshore cultivation, biorefinery of seaweed and much more. This year’s conference will be held in Bremerhaven, Germany in Atlantic Hotel Sail City, on 29-30 June, 2022. The two-day program will go into the many different applications of seaweed that…

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Seafood Expo on course despite withdrawals

SEAFOOD Expo  and Processing North America, popularly known as the Boston Seafood Show, is to go ahead , the organisers have said. Earlier this week Peter Pan Seafood of Alaska said it was pulling out because of fears over the spread of  the Omicron version of coronavirus, sparking fears that others could soon  follow. Cermaq…

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North Atlantic Seafood Forum postponed to June

One of the seafood industry’s biggest conferences, the North Atlantic Seafood Forum, is being postponed from March to June next year because of concern over the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The 17th NASF will now take place on 21-23 June 2022. The venue, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bergen, Norway – remains the same. NASF…

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Aquafuture Spain – 23rd – 25th March 2022

Spain is one of the main European aquaculture producers, being considered a key sector in the food chain that is supported by a strong, competitive and highly technological value chain. That is why it is essential to create an international meeting space for the industry in this country, as a sign of the potential, quality…

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Seafood Expo Asia confirmed for Singapore

Dates have been confirmed for Seafood Expo Asia, one of the sector’s leading trade shows. The 2022 event will take place over 14-16 September 2022 at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre. The show is the 10th for this expo, which is a major seafood marketplace for Asia, but the first to be held…

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Fish International postponed over Covid fears

Trade fair Fish International 2022 has been put back from February to September next year, in response to concerns over how the continuing Covid-19 pandemic is affecting Germany. The event, due to be held in the Messe Bremen conference centre, Bremen, will now take place over 4-6 September. Hans Peter Schneider, Managing Director with the…

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Aquaculture Africa held over to March 2022

The Aquaculture Africa 2021 conference will now take place in March 2022 instead of this December, as had been planned. Marevent, the organisers, said that the change was in response to the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 and the restrictions that have been put in place to restrict its spread. The conference will still be…

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