Fisheries and Aquaculture 2019 - Aquaculture Conference

The Success Story of ICFA 2019

The 6^th International Conference on Fisheries and Aquaculture 2019, was held on 22^nd – 23^rd August 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand under the theme “Sustainable Aquaculture: Nutritional Security and Exports”. The conference was organized by The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM), Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and University Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia as the Co-hosting partners while Curtin University, Malaysia, Maejo University, Thailand, University of Baltistan Skardu, Pakistan, Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU), India and Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka., as academic partners, and the Department of Fisheries (DoF), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand as the supportive ministry for this year’s conference. ICFA 2019 welcomed all the key personnel and delegates in the discipline of fisheries and aquaculture.

Inauguration Ceremony

The opening remarks of ICFA 2019 were made by the Conference Chair Dr. Ravi Fotedar (Curtin University, Australia) together with Mr. Isanka P. Gamage (Managing Director, The International Institute of Knowledge Management). Mrs. Chuanpid Chantarawathit, Expert in Fisheries Foreign Affairs Division, Department of Fisheries (DoF), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand delivered the key speech on behalf of the chief guest Dr. Adisorn Promthep (Director-General of Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand).

Conference Hosting and Academic Partners Appreciation

In valuing the significant contribution to the ICFA 2019 conference both Co-hosting as well as academic partner Universities were recognized during the conference. The appreciation awards were presented to the following accordingly:

School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and University Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia as Co-Hosting partners,
Curtin University, Malaysia,Maejo University, Thailand, University of Baltistan Skardu, Pakistan, Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU), India , Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka, as academic partners,
Department of Fisheries (DoF), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand as the supportive ministry

Keynote Forum

The Keynote forum was one of the significant sessions of the Conference and it was enlightened by Dr.Krishna R. Salin (Associate Professor and Program Chair, Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management (AARM), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand) on the topic “Eco-Friendly and Energy-Efficient Coastal Aquaculture Development in Asia”. Dr. Yuan Derun (Senior Programme Officer, Sustainable Farming System, Programme, Education and Training Programme, Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA), Thailand) also delivered the keynote speech titled “Aquaculture: The Growth Limitation and Untapped Opportunities”. Next in line was Dr. Ravi Fotedar (Curtin University, Australia) who delivered the speech on “Do Advances in Aquaculture Nutrition Contributes to Aquaculture Sustainability?”.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Participants from more than 14 countries

ICFA 2019 consisted of over 50 participants from 14 countries around the world, including Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Bangladesh, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Oman, Philippines, Egypt, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia. ICFA 2019 created a platform for academicians, researchers, students, industry experts, policymakers, professionals and enthusiastic attendees to share their diverse experiences, discuss, argue and ultimately to find solutions to the issues related to fisheries and aquaculture.

Technical Sessions

ICFA 2019 comprised of Nine (09) technical sessions including a poster session. The technical sessions were under the below themes.

Aquatic Resource And Environment Management
Ecology, Environmental Impacts Of Aquaculture, Climate Change, Ornamental Species, And Aquaculture Development
Feeding And Nutrition
Aquatic Health Management, Immunity And Diseases
Fish Biology And Ecotoxicology
Socio-Economics, Policy, And Governance
Post-Harvest, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, And Supply Chain
Molecular biology And Genetics

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Ravi Fotedar

[ Conference Chair ]

Keynote title: “Do advances in aquaculture nutrition contributes to aquaculture sustainability?”

BSc(H), MSc., M.Phil., PhD., MBA

Curtin University

Australia

Dr. Krishna R. Salin

Keynote title: “Eco-Friendly and Energy-Efficient Coastal Aquaculture Development in Asia”

Associate Professor and Program Chair
Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management (AARM)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Thailand

Dr. Yuan Derun

Keynote title : “Aquaculture: the growth limitation and untapped opportunities”

Senior Programme Officer
Sustainable Farming System Programme
Education and Training Programme
Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
Thailand

CHIEF GUEST

Aquatic Farms Albert G.J. Tacon

Dr. Adisorn Promthep

Director-General of Department of Fisheries
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives
Thailand

CONFERENCE ADVISERS

Dr. Rohana Subasinghe

Honorary Life Member of the World Aquaculture Society
President Elect of the World Aquaculture Society – Asia Pacific Chapter (WAS-APC).
Retired Chief of FAO Aquaculture Service
Managing Director, Future Fish
Sri Lanka

Aquatic Farms Albert G.J. Tacon

Dr. Albert G.J. Tacon

Technical Director – Aquatic Farms Ltd
USA

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Dr Janet Howieson

Curtin University
Australia

Speech title: “Post-Harvest Research/Industry Partnerships to Improve Seafood Marketability”

Dr. Dilip Kumar

Aquaculture, Fisheries and Rural Development Adviser
Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU)
India

Speech title: “Aquaculture Development – Increasing role of Entrepreneurs”

Special Features of ICFA ‘19

PARTNER COCKTAIL EVENING

The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) hosted a Partner Cocktail Evening on the 21^st of August to the Partner institutions. This was exclusively only for the Partner Universities of the ICFA’19 conference. The occasion was a platform to make new contacts with representatives from Universities all around the world and develop existing ones. Moreover, this gathering provided a unique networking opportunity for the delegates while enabling University representatives to interact in a friendly and fun environment.

Workshop on Seafood Cold Chain Management and Quality Monitoring

The workshop titled” Workshop on Seafood Cold Chain Management and Quality Monitoring” was facilitated by Dr. Janet Howieson and Dr. Rowan Kleindienst from Curtin University, Australia. This workshop included presentations on the overall status and current best practice technologies for seafood cold chain management (frozen and chilled). This showcased Australian case study examples. Demonstration of supply chain monitoring techniques including temperature logging techniques to monitor the cool chain from harvest to end-user/consumer, and quality monitoring using quality index measurements (potentially including fish and/or prawn examples of the impact of temperature abuse, etc). The workshop also provided a summary and opportunity for feedback and discussion of shared experiences/techniques.

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Dr. Janet Howieson

Dr. Janet Howieson,
Curtin University,
Australia

Rowan Kleindienst

Dr. Rowan Kleindienst

Dr Rowan Kleindienst,
Curtin University,
Australia

Workshop on Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) in Aquaculture

This workshop on Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) in Aquaculture was moderated by Nick Piggott (CEO of Nutrition Technologies, Malaysia). The workshop covered the basics of how Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) raised at a commercial scale, as well as how best to use BSFL products such as protein meals and oil. In the first part of the workshop participants were able to learn the basic elements to BSFL production at a commercial scale. This included larvae feed options, breeding, and product processing. And then reviewed case studies of BSFL applications and explored ways the system could be integrated into new or existing research projects or businesses. The workshop covered key Issues regarding insect protein in Southeast Asia, such as safety, regulatory concerns, growth projections, and sustainability. Participants were able to gain a thorough understanding of the nutritional qualities of BSFL meal and oil as a fishmeal replacement and explore ways use it in cost-effective ways.

Nick Piggott
CEO of Nutrition Technologies

Workshop on Water Quality Bioremediation: An Innovative Approach

This workshop was moderated by Dr. Robert Peter Morgan (Curtin University, Australia). The workshop provided background information on the development of the product, its characteristics and its uses in various aquatic environments and IP on the product. For further understanding, video clips on the usage of the product were used. This workshop was open for discussion and questions and answers as well as Future plans for the usage of the product in the aquatic environment, Future research and Poster display.

Robert Peter Morgan
The Marine Easy Clean Pty Ltd (MEC)
Australia

Workshop on Important statistical methods used in research using SPSS

This workshop was moderated by Prof. Dr. K. Marimuthu, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences AIMST University, Malaysia. The workshop aimed to assist in the development of the skills needed to write and submit scientific manuscripts with the ultimate goal of improving the dissemination of research and enhance knowledge sharing. The workshop also provided the participants with insight and training in the processes required to publish a scientific article successfully.

Workshop - ICaFA 2019 /Agrico 2019

Prof. Dr. K. MARIMUTHU
Malaysia

Panel Discussion on “Water Scarcity and Sustainable Aquaculture”

A panel discussion on “Water Scarcity and Sustainable Aquaculture” was moderated by the Conference Chair Dr. Ravi Fotedar (Curtin University, Australia) along with the 03 panelists Prof. Samih Abubaker, Jordan, Prof. Dr. K. Marimuthu, Malaysia and Dr. Moin Us Salam, Bangladesh. The panel discussion was an interactive session and participants had the opportunity to learn from resource persons enhanced ways of producing more seafood while simultaneously using less of the scarce water resources. This panel discussion was open to all conference participants from the 6^th International Conference on Fisheries and Aquaculture 2019 and the 6^th International Conference on Agriculture 2019. This discussion provided the opportunity to raise questions and doubts during the Q & A session.

Dr. Ravi Fotedar [ Conference Co-Chair ] Ravi Fotedar
Australia

Dr. Ravi Fotedar [ Conference Co-Chair ] Prof. Samih Abubaker
Jordan

Dr. Ravi Fotedar [ Conference Co-Chair ] Prof. Dr. K. MARIMUTHU
Malaysia

Dr. Ravi Fotedar [ Conference Co-Chair ] Dr. Moin Us Salam
Bangladesh

Study Tour Thailand

The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries (DoF), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand organized a free study tour for the participants of the 6^th International Conference on Fisheries and Aquaculture 2019 – (ICFA 2019) and 6^th International Conference on Agriculture 2019 – (AGRICO 2019) following the conference. This tour was fully sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand for 40 conference participants.

The purpose of the study tour was to observe the developments of Thai aquaculture in inland waters and at the same time, obtain information on the organizational and technical aspects of these developments. Whilst this certainly put in leisure time on the tour, the primary focus was on learning Thai fisheries and aquaculture in the Chonburi and Chachoengsao provinces in Thailand.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted abstracts for the 6^th International Conference on Fisheries and Aquaculture 2019 – (ICFA 2019) will be published in the conference abstract book with an associated ISBN 978-955-3605-34-4.

All full papers sent for conference proceedings will be subjected to double-blind reviewing process and will be published electronically with an ISSN 2386-1282 in the proceedings with a DOI Number (DOI prefix: 10.17501). Accepted papers published in conference proceedings will be submitted to Google Scholar, Scopus and Thomson Reuters for possible indexing.

Aquaculture Journal – Special Issue

Aquaculture Journal ISSN 0044-8486
Editor in Chief Prof. B.A. Costa-Pierce
Publisher Elsevier
Journal Link https://www.journals.elsevier.com/aquaculture
Scope Sustainability Science, Social-ecological Systems, Ornamental, Conservation and restoration related to Aquaculture
Indexed in SCOPUS, Elsevier BIOBASE, BIOSIS and many more

Aquaculture Nutrition

Aquaculture Journal ISSN 1365-2095
Editor in Chief Dr. Marit Espe
Publisher Wiley Online
Journal Link https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13652095
Scope Providing a global perspective on the nutrition of all cultivated aquatic animals. Topics range from extensive aquaculture to laboratory studies of nutritional biochemistry and physiology. The Journal specifically seeks to improve our understanding of the nutrition of aquacultured species through the provision of an international forum for the presentation of reviews and original research papers
Indexed in SCOPUS (Elsevier), PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset (NLM),Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics), Veterinary Bulletin (CABI), World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI) and many more
Impact factor 2.078

Session Chairs

Dr. Rungkarn Suebsing, Integrative Aquaculture Biotechnology Research Group, Thailand
Dr Sanjay Gupta ICAR- Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, India
Dr. Rudy Agung Nugroho, Mulawarman University, Indonesia
Dr. Sukham Munilkumar, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India
Dr. Nurul Ulfah Karim, Univerisiti Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Md. Shahjahan, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh
Dr. Satendra Kumar, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India

Evaluation Panel Members

Ravi Fotedar, Curtin University, Australia
Robert Morgan, Curtin University, Australia
Rowan Kleindienst, Curtin University, Australia
Janet Howieson, Curtin University, Australia
S.C. Jayamanna, Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka
Dilip Kumar, Bihar Animal Sciences University (BASU), India
Dr. K. Marimuthu, AIMST University, Malaysia

Scientific Committee Members

S.C. Jayamanne,Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka
Ravi Fotedar, Curtin University,Australia
Ahmed H. Alharbi,Life science and Environment Research Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
E.D.N.S. Abeyrathne,Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka
Nurul Ulfah Karim,Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Rumeaida Mat Piah,Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
P. Santhanam,Bharathidasan University, India
Narottam Prasad Sahu,Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India
K. Marimuthu,AIMST University, Malaysia
Babitha Rani,Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India
Janet Howieson, Curtin University, Australia
Rajendran K. V,Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India
P.S. Asha,TRC of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, (ICAR-CMFRI), India
Kiran Dube,Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India
Mok Wen Jye,Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Haryadi,Muhammadiyah University of Malang, Indonesia
Hany Handajani,Muhammadiyah University of Malang, Indonesia
Hamda Azmat,University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pakistan
Nuwan Liyanage,Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka
Rumeaida Mat Piah,Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Kiran Dube,Jamia Hamdard University, India
J.A. Athula,Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka
Nurul Ulfah Karim,Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia
Babitha Rani,Deemed university, India
Rajendran K. V,Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE), India
Yuzine Esa,Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
P. Santhanam,Bharathidasan University, India
S. Balasundari,Deemed university, India
Narottam Prasad Sahu,Central Institute of fisheries education, India
Muhammad Ashraf,University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pakistan
N.Felix,Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, India
Prof.Dr.Jongkon Promya, Maejo University, Thailand
Oyas Ahmed Asimi, Faculty of Fisheries, SKUAST-K, India
Prof.Dr.Niwooti Whangchai, Maejo University, Thailand
Prof.Dr.Chanagun Chitmanat, Maejo University, Thailand
Tariqul Islam,University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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