Conference Handbook With Compliments From 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. iii 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) iv 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 v 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