Provisional Conference Programme DAY ONE: 9 APRIL 2014 08.15 REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING COFFEE 09.00 Welcome Address A representative from the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (speaker tbc) Session One - Introduction and Keynote presentations 09.15
Setting the Scene for the Offshore Mariculture conference 2014 Chairman: Alessandro Lovatelli, Aquaculture Officer, Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service (FIRA), Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO of the UN
09.30 The what, where and how much of offshore mariculture: global development opportunities from a spatial perspective Dr. James McDaid Kapetsky, formerly FAO Senior Fishery Resources Officer & Jose AguilarManjarrez, Aquaculture Officer, Aquaculture Branch (FIRA), Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 10.00 Legal Issues effecting Offshore Aquaculture Development Katherine Hawes, Principal, Aquarius Lawyers “The Fish Lawyer” 10.30 Question & Answers to speakers from session one 10.40 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK Session Two – Investment in Offshore Mariculture today 11.10 The importance of proper institutional policies and investment incentives to encourage investment in mariculture John Dallimore, Aquaculture Consultant (speaker tbc) 11.30 Aquaculture Certification Scheme: Managing expectations to maximize investment returns in offshore mariculture Carson Roper, Independent Consultant, Seafood Industry Liaison Identifying and understanding the economic benefits of satisfying market expectations through aquaculture certification is a pre-requisite for informed investments in responsible practices and improvement initiatives. This presentation explores the implications of external expectations for the offshore maritime aquaculture industry and how to align external expectations with internal capabilities and objectives to facilitate sound investments from a sustainability perspective. 11.50 Cage aquaculture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: current situation and sector development plans Francesco Cardia, Project Manager, FAO (speaker tbc)
12.10 Title TBC Robert Orr, Chief Executive Officer, Cuna de Mar LP 12.30 Questions & Answers to speakers from session two 12.40 NETWORKING LUNCH Session Three – Technological Innovations for Offshore Mariculture – Cage & Nets 14.00 Offshore fish farm cage bridle and anchoring system Ludvig Karlsen, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) In-depth description of farms and equipment available today for salmon offshore fish farming, including floater design and capabilities, net designs, bridle system for circular cage floater farms, anchoring frames including buoys and buoy-lines and traditional connection plate designs. 14.15 Development of a new air diffusion system for oxygenation in Mediterranean cage culture Henrik Grundvig, Aquaculture Consultant, Product Development division, Teknologisk Institutt as Suboptimal dissolved oxygen (DO) levels are experienced periodically during the warm season in many Mediterranean fish farms. This depresses the food intake and growth of the farmed stock. AirX is a new diffuser based aeration concept for control of dissolved oxygen levels in aquaculture that is under development. The system is designed for use in large rearing units and is presently being tested in sea cages in Greece and in earth ponds in Portugal. The evaluation of the system is oriented towards income-producing factors for the fish farmer. 14.30 New Solutions for Net Management in Offshore Cages Terry Drost, President, Four Links Marketing Ltd As we move further offshore fish containment systems are becoming more substantial and rigid requiring new approaches for cleaning and maintenance of water flow through the nets. Insitu net cleaning has also advanced significantly with the development of Remote Operated Net Cleaners (RONCs) by Multi Pump Innovations (MPI) of Norway. RONCs offer a new solution to onsite net management. This presentation will look at the results of both manual and RONC net cleaning systems on net management and fish health.
14.45 Ocean farming at temperature edge: Advantages of movable cages in a case study for Madeira Island Carlos Andrade, PhD, Head of Marine Aquaculture Division, Fisheries Directorate of Madeira Autonomous Region Ocean fish farming is seldom presented as the new frontier for aquaculture; the opportunity to overcome space limitations and conflicts with other water users. Several models of ocean cages have been proposed and tested, including self propelled cages presented at the last Offshore Mariculture Conference in Izmir, Turkey. If linked to geo positioning systems, this latest type of cage would have a high degree of autonomy, ensuring minimal conflict and risks for both infrastructure and live stocks.
15.00 Submersible cage operated by variable ballast Dr Alessandro Ciattaglia, BADINOTTI GROUP S.p.A The use of submersible cages allows farmers to develop aquaculture activities in exposed and unprotected sea sites, improving the potential production of a coastal region, whilst ensuring the environmental compatibility of farming sites. At the same time, farmers can achieve a significant improvement in quality in comparison with fish farmed in traditional sheltered sites or land-based locations. 15.15 Environmentally friendly, single-point mooring (S.P.M) submersible and flexible net cage aquaculture systems Josef Melchner, Vice President, SUBflex, Open Ocean SPM Net Cage Systems SUBflex is an Israeli based technological company, which designs and commercialises innovative Submersible Net Cage Systems for offshore fish farming. SUBflex presents its tailor-made solutions for specific requirements and site conditions, based on years of experience with offshore fish farming. 15.30 Questions & Answers to the speakers from session three 15.40 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK Session Four– Offshore Mariculture past and present – moving on from 2012 16.10 Danish Aquaculture Industry Goes Offshore Karl Iver Dahl-Madsen & Lisbeth Jess Plesner, President and Senior Project Manager, Dansk Akvakultur (The Association of Danish Fish, Shellfish and Seaweed Farmers) At the 2010 offshore fish farming conference in Croatia a group of researchers and industry representatives laid out a vision for offshore farming in part of the 105.000 km2 Danish territorial waters. A potential culture of salmonoid fish, blue mussels and seaweed on 1% of this area and to a value of 2 billion Euros/yr. were envisioned. A vision and a strategy is useless without implementation, so we went back home and walked the walk. As of today, a new pilot scale (300 tons /yr. capacity) offshore trout farm has been constructed in the open Great Belt in May 2013. The projects are ongoing, but seen from an industry perspective some relevant, preliminary findings will be discussed. 16.30 Offshore mobile, revolving and submersible Fish-Cage with MAC-Marine Aquaculture Center (Dipl.-Ing.) Siegfried Beck, International Aquaculture Consultant The innovative cage swims permanently in clean oxygenated waters below the wave trough and does not stress the fish. The integrated MAC-Marine Aquaculture Center with large food stores and an innovative liquid feeder serves the cage. MAC has facilities for scientific research programmes and breeding of juveniles. Renewable wind and solar energy makes MAC entirely independent. The large circular one point mooring avoids any pollution. 16.50 Green Growth Marine Aquaculture Development in Turkey Dr. Hayri Denz, Director of Overseas Investments and International Relations, Kilic Seafood Company
Turkey has great potential for aquaculture with its seas, dams and natural lakes, amounting to a total water surface area of 26 million ha and rivers of 177,714Km total length. The offshore fish farming market began in the early 1970s with an involvement only in rainbow trout culture and has grown to total fisheries production of 644,852 tons in 2012, making it the fastest growing food production sector in Turkey in the last decade. 17.10 Baxendale & Kampachi Farms success story – Why offshore mariculture is a viable investment Toby Baxendale, UK Entrepreneur After meeting at the Offshore Mariculture Conference 2012 in Turkey, a success story between Toby Baxendale, UK Entrepreneur and Kampachi Farms was born. Learn more about this story and how mariculture is a viable investment and how fish farmers can understand how investment can be achieved. 17.30 Questions & Answers to speakers from session four 17.40 Round up of day one from Conference Chairman 17.50 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE 19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER DAY TWO: 10 APRIL 2014 08.30 REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING COFFEE 09.00 Welcome to Day Two of the conference from the Chairman Session Five – Fish Nutrition & Feed Management 09.20 Resources for fish feed in future mariculture Yngvar Olsen, Trondhjem Biological Station, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology There is a growing concern about the ability to produce enough nutritious food to feed the global human population. Environmental conflicts and a limited freshwater supply constrain further developments in agriculture; global fisheries have levelled off, and aquaculture may have to play a more prominent role in supplying human food. The main aim of this paper is to speculate on how feed supplies can be produced for an expanding aquaculture industry by and beyond 2050 and to establish a roadmap of the actions needed to achieve this. 09.40 TBC Professor Simon Davies, School of Biological Sciences (Faculty of Science & Environment), University of Plymouth 10.00 Active Control in offshore aquaculture feeding management Juan Antonio González, Technical Support Manager, Skretting Southern Europe Getting optimum profitability is the purpose of any investment. Achieving this in offshore marine fish aquaculture is mainly related with getting production costs as low as possible,
without affecting growth performance and product quality. The most important production cost is fish feed, and that’s why applying a correct feeding strategy, adapted to the nutritional requirements of each species and to the environmental circumstances of each farm, becomes one major challenge. Through active control feeding management we can achieve this target in a really efficient way. 10.20 Hydraulic Feed Distribution for Submerged Open Ocean Cages Stephen Page, General Manager, Ocean Farm Technologies This presentation will review the history of hydraulic feed delivery systems, state of the art, and future needs for technology development in this field. Much of the technology required to implement a hydraulic feeding solution is currently being used with success in adjacent industries. This presentation will further explore methods used to bring those compatible technologies to bear in the aquaculture community. 10.40 Questions & Answers to the speakers from session five 10.50 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK Session Six - Integrating Offshore Mariculture with Renewable Energy 11.20
Blue energy for offshore cage culture David Campbell, Chief Financial Officer, Albatern In early 2013 Albatern carried out a feasibility study for the UK Government and confirmed the viability of providing power from wave energy for use in offshore aquaculture in waves from 0.3m significant height to the design limit of the current device at 6m significant. Albatern’s WaveNET device consists of a number of standard ‘Squid’ units close coupled to form an array. The full size Squid units are currently in build and a demonstrator WaveNET array is to be run over winter 2013/14 in an aquaculture site. The presentation will share the development of the project and the results achieved.
11.40 Multi-Use Concepts as a Potential Solution for the Overcrowded Marine Realm Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck, Head of Working Group, Marine Aquaculture, Maritime Technologies and ICZM and Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre, Polar and Marine Research (AWI) This presentation will give an overview of completed as well as ongoing research of aquaculture in multi-use concepts with offshore wind farms in Europe. It includes in the framework of the German-based multi-use concept assessing the potential for sustainable use of marine offshore areas within the German EEZ for the co-utilization of wind energy and aquaculture. 12.00 The Mermaid project – The next generation for offshore platforms Erik Damgaard Christensen, Professor, DTU Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (speaker tbc) 12.20 Questions & Answers to the speakers from session six 12.30 NETWORKING LUNCH Session Seven – Stock Management
13.50 Optimizing VICASS use in marine cages to estimate gilthead sea bream and sea bass body weight Ignacio Jauralde Garcia, Tec. Superior - Dpto. Ciencia Animal, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia The VICASS models used to estimate body weight in sea bream and sea bass evaluated via a comparison with other models using 7,000 sea bream and sea bass fish. As with any tests there are random errors which can occur, affecting the results. In this case systematic errors such as human, condition of the fish and size of sample taken can affect results. Methods to detect and control possible errors will be analysed and discussed.
14.10 Water quality monitoring in open ocean aquaculture: Does sound science make sense? Neil Sims, President, Ocean Stewards Institute, co-Founder and co-CEO of Kampachi Farms, LLC 14.30 Viral Nervous Necrosis (VNN) disease as a new threat in the aquatic ecosystem of the Caspian Sea M.E.J. Zorriehzahra, Head of Aquatic animal Health & Diseases Dept., Head of Iranian Coldwater Fishes Scientific Society (CFS), Iranian Fisheries Research Organization (IFRO) Viral Nervous Necrosis (VNN) is a worldwide serious disease affecting several species of cultured marine fish. For the past two decades, betanodavirus infections that cause VNN have emerged as major constraints on the culture and sea ranching of marine fish in almost all parts of the world. The disease has a wide geographical distribution having been observed in tropical and temperate climates. Up to now, more than fifty species mainly of marine origin have been so far affected and this number is likely to rise in future following the introduction of new species and the increase of aquaculture trade. 14.50 Increasing gilthead sea bream (Spara aurata) production and profitability in marine fish farms by optimizing the management of cage batches Aquaculture and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Animal Science and Technology, University of Valencia Most fish farms in the Mediterranean do not practice the splitting and classifications of batches, which is required when managing their annual production. This presentation will explore the methods and benefits of splitting and/or classifying batches, the equipment either will require and how this will affect the actual cost of fish farm management. 15.10 What is happening with the farming potential of the Atlantic bluefin tuna? Dr Roberto Ugolini, Italian Research Centre on Fishery (CIRSPE)(speaker tbc) 15.30 Questions & Answers to the speakers from session seven 15.40 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK Session Eight – Fish Farm Case Study 16.10 Gaeta Fish Farm – Case Study Alessandro Galioto, Production Manager, Azienda Ittica San Giorgio srl 16.40 Questions & Answers to speakers from session eight
16.50 Round up of conference from Conference Chairman 17.00 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE DAY THREE: 11 APRIL 2014 Visit to offshore fish farm Conference programme is subject to change and final confirmation
