larvi 2024 will be held from September 9-12, 2024 in Ostend, Belgium. This is the 8th Fish & Shellfish Larviculture Symposium. Oragnisers are:
- Annelies Declercq, Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Ghent University, Belgium
- Kjell Inge Reitan, Center of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway - Gunvor Øie, SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway
Closing the life cycle of aquaculture species of economic importance is critical for the ultimate success of aquaculture. Predictable & cost-effective availability of high-quality fry, fingerlings, postlarvae, seed, spores, etc. remain the key for a successful aquaculture venture. Knowledge generated at many different levels can further increase the success of the sector.
Much progress is being made in knowledge-based insights on e.g. the genetic make-up of the broodstock, steering the ontogeny, the importance of first feeding, steering host microbial interactions and its immunological consequences, automation, etc. Research in these fields are increasingly supported and stimulated by a variety of novel and sophisticated techniques such as omics’ and artificial intelligence tools. They generate an unprecedented and often fascinating insight into biological processes. Although they generally also raise new research questions, they stand for a major leap forwards as compared to the empirical approach of a relatively recent past.
Capitalising on the previous “larvi†symposia (in ’91, ’95, ’01, ’05, ’09, ’13, ‘17), the Aquaculture R&D Consortium of Ghent University, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SINTEF Ocean have joined again in the organizing committee for “larvi’24†and are inviting the academic as well as the private sector to attend the 8 th Fish and Shellfish Larviculture Symposium. Bringing together European and non-European stakeholders, once again the latest progress in academic research and in the production sector will be reviewed, problems identified and avenues for future collaboration explored.
Tentative programme
Session I. Broodstock Management, Maturation and Spawning – zootechniques, nutrition, egg and larval quality, domestication, sperm quality, genetics, germplasm preservation, genomics and proteomics, transgenics and GMOs, …
Session II. Developmental Biology and Deformities – ontogeny, developmental biology, behaviour, …
Session III. Larval Nutrition -nutritional requirements, feeding schemes, live food and its substitutes, …
Session IV. Larviculture at Commercial Scale -culture systems, automation, environmental requirements, socio-economic aspects, …
Session V. Disease Prevention, Pathogen Control, Biosecurity and Health – prebiotics, probiotics, diseases and pathogens, microbial management, viral and bacterial challenge tests, vaccination, phage therapy,
Call for papers
Interested contributors to the symposium programme are hereby invited to submit to the Symposium Secretariat before January 15, 2024 indicative titles and a 10-line summary of the contribution (paper
or poster).
The authors will be notified of the acceptance of their contribution and the kind of presentation (oral, poster, workshop) before March 15, 2024 at which time they will receive the instructions to authors for submission of their mini-paper. Authors who wish to submit full-length papers for selection and publication in the symposium proceedings will have to turn in their manuscript at the meeting.
Date and Place
The symposium will start on September 9, 2024 with registration for the larvi conference and the Artemia workshop (program will follow). All sessions will be held at the ‘De Grote Post’ in the city center of Ostend. More information about Ostend can be retrieved from https://www.visitoostende.be/en. The official opening session and reception will take place in the evening of September 9. The scientific sessions will be held from September 10 through September 12. Ostend is a cosmopolitan city by the sea and is known as the ‘Queen of seaside cities’. The wide sandy beaches, the attractive boulevards and the beautiful casino form the face of the seaside resort. Ostend is the most important coastal city in Belgium with a large fishing port and marina harbor, but Ostend is also a shopping city where you can go all year round. Happy to welcome you all there!
The first conference of the “International Artemia Aquaculture Consortium†IAAC (artemia.info) will be organized on September 9, 2024 at the same premises as the larvi conference. If interested to attend please complete the appropriate box on the larvi pre-registration form. More information on the program for the IAAC event will be updated on the IAAC website.
Registration
Persons interested in attending larvi 2024 are requested to fill in and return the pre-registration form to the Symposium Secretariat at their earliest convenience, in order to receive further updates on the conference.
The second announcement with detailed information and the tentative program will be e-mailed in spring 2024 to those persons who have returned the pre-registration form. Detailed information will also gradually become available on the symposium website www.aquaculture.UGent.be/larvi
