Conference handbook: Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010

264 Pages·2010·1.51 MB·English

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Contents
Objectives and Expected Outcomes ...................................................................................iii
Conference Organisation ....................................................................................................iv
The Arduous Road from Kyoto 1976 ....................................................................................v
Useful Information for Participants ....................................................................................viii
Floor Plan and Location of Sessions ...................................................................................x
Side Events ........................................................................................................................xii
Keynote Addresses ..............................................................................................................1
Regional and Global Reviews on Aquaculture .....................................................................9
Plenary Lectures ................................................................................................................27
Invited Guest Lectures .......................................................................................................45
Expert Panel Presentations ...............................................................................................55
Poster Abstracts ...............................................................................................................105

Objectives and Expected Outcomes
Reflecting on the progress made in developing aquaculture as a sustainable food producing
sector through two milestone events beginning from the Kyoto Conference in 1976, and 25
years later during the Conference on the Third Millennium in 2000, the Global Conference
on Aquaculture 2010 brings together a wide-ranging group of experts and important
stakeholders to take stock of aquaculture’s progress and further potential, as basis for
positioning the sector and its agenda to the global community.
The aims of the Conference are to:
• Review the present status and trends in aquaculture development.
• Evaluate the progress made in the implementation of the Bangkok Declaration and
Strategy on Aquaculture Development Beyond 2000.
• Address emerging issues in aquaculture development.
• Assess opportunities and challenges for future aquaculture development.
• Build consensus on advancing aquaculture as a global, sustainable and competitive food
production sector.
In order to achieve these objectives, the conference is structured into four dynamic sessions
over three days. The conference will be informed by two keynote addresses, six plenary
lectures, and three invited guest lectures. To facilitate global understanding of the current
status of aquaculture development and the numerous issues facing the sector, six regional
reviews on aquaculture development in the past decade and a global synthesis will be
presented, followed by 22 expert panel presentations covering six broad thematic areas
on key aspects pivotal to aquaculture development, management and sustainability in the
coming decades. These include: (i) resources and technologies for future aquaculture, (ii)
sector management and governance, (iii) aquaculture and the environment, (iv) responding
to market demands and challenges, (v) improving knowledge, information, research,
extension and communication in aquaculture, and (vi) enhancing its contribution to food
security, poverty alleviation and rural development.
A poster session will enable participants to present technical and experience papers and
interact with experts and stakeholders. This and four side events will provide a platform to
bring together various stakeholders to discuss important issues pertaining to aquaculture
development in the next decade. The conference will be concluded with a plenary
presentation of a Draft Consensus and Strategy for Global Aquaculture Development.
The global community is welcome to participate and share responsibility in making
aquaculture a sustainable food producing sector.
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Conference Organisation
The need to have a follow-up conference to Aquaculture in the Third Millennium held in
Bangkok, Thailand, February 200, was conceived at the 19th NACA Governing Council
Meeting held in February 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal. This idea was almost immediately
followed up by NACA in conjunction with the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the
Food and Agriculture Organization and the Department of Fisheries, Royal Government of
Thailand, when interim organisational committees were set up, and the idea communicated
on the respective web sites of these organisations. Key committees were constituted to
ensure that the representation was spread across globally, and be representative, as
much as possible of all the regions, expertise and regional and national organisations. The
conference is the efforts of these coming to fruition.
International Organising Committee (IOC)
Co-chairs
Jiansan Jia (FAO) Sena S. De Silva (NACA)
Sloans Chimatiro (NEPAD)
Mem bers
Marc Nolting (GTZ) Mario González Recinos (SICA/OSPESCA)
Nanthyia Unprasert (DoF Thailand) Waraporn Prompoj (DoF Thailand)
Chumnarn Pongsri (SEAFDEC) Stetson Tinkham (USA)
Abdulredha J. Shams (Bahrain) Rohana Subasinghe (FAO)
International Programme Committee (IOC)
Rohana Subasinghe (FAO) Doris Soto (FAO)
Nathanael Hishamunda (FAO) Audun Lem (FAO)
Weimin Miao (FAO) Mohan Chadag (NACA)
Sloans Chimatiro (NEPAD) Michael Phillips (WFC)
Geoff Gooley (Australia) Patrick Sorgeloos (EU)
Dawood Suleiman Al-Yahyai (Oman) Lorenzo Juarez (Mexico/WAS)
Local Organising Committee (LOC)
Raschad Al-Khafaji (FAO) Sanchai Tanthawanitj (DoF Thailand)
Waraporn Prompoj (DoF Thailand) Uthairat Na-Nakorn (Thailand)
Weimin Miao (FAO)
Secretariat: Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
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The Arduous Road from Kyoto 1976 to Bangkok 2000 and
Now to Phuket 2010: Milestones in Modern Aquaculture
Development
Perhaps the old Chinese proverb, “Teach a man how to catch fish
and he will have food for a day, and teach him how to grow fish and
he will have food for life” cannot be any truer than now. In the modern
era the impetus on fish farming was triggered by the dawning of the
gradual realisation that the oceans were bountiful but its biological
resources exhaustible and the world will have to look for ways and
means of meeting the short fall in food fish supplies, for a growing
human population, further exacerbated by the realisation of the TVR ‘Ramu’ Pillay.
human nutritional benefits that fish offer. We believe that aquaculture
has achieved what it has to date, in a relatively short time span for a primary production
sector, because of a few crucial development oriented events.
Taking the above challenge forward needed vision and dedication. It is in this regard
that the vision of one man was crucial; Dr. T.V. Ramu Pillay took upon himself to uplift
aquaculture and convince the governments, donors and development agencies the only
avenue available to the world for meeting the increasing demand for seafood was through
aquaculture. Consequently, a major aquaculture development project under the UNDP -
FAO was born, and a milestone of this was the convening of a global conference, June
1976, in Kyoto, Japan, when the key strategies to be adopted were agreed upon in the
Kyoto Declaration. These entailed the following elements:
• Raising the profile of aquaculture in government development plans and private sector
investment priorities.
• Facilitating the transformation of the art of aquaculture to a science based sector
• Develop and generate the human capacity needed to forge ahead with the new
innovations and practices
• Create mechanisms for knowledge exchange and adaptation within and between regions
through appropriate networks.
• Create the appropriate political climate and the associated policy developments to back-
up and facilitate the developments
• Coordination and integration of research
The results of the above initiatives are obvious when one looks at the aquaculture
production alone; in 1976 it was only about 1 million tonnes, and the following two decades
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it moved from 9.186 million tonnes (1986) to 26.593 million tonnes (1996). The Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Organization (UNO) began to carry
forward the impetus on sustainable aquaculture development as a means of meeting the
increasing demand for food fish whilst contributing to food security and livelihoods further.
Correspondingly, major institutional changes were initiated, and that was the birth of
networks such as NACA, that commenced as a project component and later transformed
into an inter-governmental organisation with major lead centres to assist in this effort;
governments began to embrace aquaculture as a development strategy with particular
emphasis in association with rural development, human capital began to increase, and
the science of aquaculture began to gradually mature. The importance and the recognition
of aquaculture as a food production sector continued when member governments of the
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) saw the need to set-up a Sub Committee on
Aquaculture under the Committee on Fisheries, which was fulfilled in 2001.
The new millennium called for stock taking of the situation, especially in view of the
overwhelming acceptance of the Millennium Development Goals, and in a dynamic world
where sustainable development, environmental integrity and biodiversity became pivotal
elements in all forms of human endeavour and development. Aquaculture in the Third
Millennium, the global conference held in Bangkok in February 2000, was the ‘stock taker’,
evaluator and the determiner for the way forward for the new decade. The keynote address
on the occasion stated, “The two landmark events in the recent history of aquaculture are
the holding of the FAO Technical Conference on Aquaculture, Kyoto, Japan in 1976, and
the Conference on Aquaculture in the Third Millennium, in Bangkok, Thailand, in February
2000”.
Where are we now? Within the first eight years of the decade food fish production from
aquaculture increased from 32.416 to 52.546 million tonnes, with corresponding monetary
values being 47.597 and 94.448 billion United States dollars- a notable improvement by any
strength of imagination, and particularly for a primary production sector. Needless to say that
the production and development surge over the last few decades have been spearheaded
by PR China, where aquaculture is thought to have originated 2500 years or so back, and
which continues to lead the sector globally. The developments since the 1970s have not
only been confined to production levels and the revenue thereof. The developments have
embraced many countries and regions resulting in aquaculture contributing more to the
gross domestic product in many places such as in Chile, India, Thailand, Vietnam, than from
the traditional capture fisheries sector. The developments have taken place in countries and
regions that did not have a tradition of farming the waters, very different to farming on land,
new species and groups have emerged, thereby impacting on the diversity of food types on
our table. Most of all it has continued to provide employment and food security for millions,
mostly in rural areas and for impoverished communities. The developments in the sector
have had their critiques; and certainly have not always been smooth and unhindered either.
This conference has now become the major global mechanism for shared learning and
exchange for most stakeholders involved in this vigorous and rapidly evolving sector, and to
evaluate how we should move forward in the decade or so.
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