Singapore site for first Asian offshore mariculture conference
THE first offshore mariculture conference to be staged in Asia will take place in Singapore in May, following successful events in Europe and Mexico.
Offshore Mariculture Asia will be held in Singapore from May 15-17, 2018, the organisers, Mercator Media, announced last month.
Off the coast, deep water and strong current fish farming of finfish is the main topic of the debut conference, which hopes to attract more than 150 international delegates and speakers to the Marina Mandarin Hotel in Singapore.
On day three of the conference delegates will have a chance to visit a fish farm.
The conference, which is in association with the US Soybean Export Council (USSEC), will offer technical presentations and panel discussions, covering hatchery and breeding technology, offshore technology and cages, nutrition, valued added and distribution.
Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling, events director at Mercator Media, said: ‘At the last European edition of Offshore Mariculture Conference (OMC) in Barcelona, it was highlighted by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) chairman that Asia is the developing hub in terms of quantity and potential, and it needs to intensify with more fish per cubic metre of water.
‘It is felt that the market in South East Asia is now well primed for large scale/large volume production and is an excellent location for our conference.’
Previous European locations of the conference included Malta, Spain, Croatia and Turkey and in March of 2017 OMC launched in Mexico.