HISTORY OF MILLION DOLLAR FISH

SEASON 7

SeaWeek is Australia’s major national public awareness campaign to focus community awareness, provide information and encourage an appreciation of the sea. SeaWeek gives us a fantastic opportunity to promote educational issues of relevance to the marine environment.

SeaWeek events are organised and run by environmental and marine educators across the country. If you’d like to organise and run a SeaWeek event, competition or activity during SeaWeek, we’d love to promote it!

Email seaweek(at)aaee.org.au and we’ll add it here on the SeaWeek web page.

Sustainable Seafood Week in Australia is an annual campaign that champions action to protect fish and marine life. We celebrate the fisheries, retailers, chefs and restaurants in Australia that support our mission to end overfishing and ensure we have seafood forever.

Sustainable Seafood Week is a campaign run by the Marine Stewardship Council and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council over 21-27 March 2022.

For more information see

https://www.msc.org/en-au/what-you-can-do/campaign-for-change/sustainable-seafood-week-australia

The ocean gives us life. We rely on it for food, livelihoods, climate resilience and recreation. Ensuring the longevity of our planet’s life force requires decisive and collective action.

This year, the 7th Our Ocean Conference will be a key moment for countries, civil society, and industry to commit to concrete and significant actions to protect the ocean. The Republic of Palau is the first small island developing state (SIDS) to host the Our Ocean Conference. The conference’s theme is “Our Ocean, Our People, Our Prosperity,” which draws on Palau’s rich tradition as an ocean society and focuses on islander perspectives and approaches to ensuring the health of our ocean.

Our Ocean will focus on six Areas of Action, convening partners from across the globe to identify solutions to manage marine resources, increase ocean’s resilience to climate change and safeguard its health for generations to come. Each panel discussion will reflect the broader theme to amplify traditional ocean conservation knowledge, highlight vulnerable ocean communities and actions to mitigate impacts to ocean ecosystems that threaten peoples’ livelihoods around the globe.

As part of our commitments to explore solutions that connect social, economic and environmental challenges afflicting a sustainable ocean economy, WorldFish will support the goals of World Ocean Summit by continuing to showcase our research and innovation in shaping and advancing the way in which governments, businesses, and conservation organisations work together to fashion the ‘blue economy.’

Stay up to date with the latest information by following WorldFish and the hashtag #aquaticfoods to join the virtual dialogue on Twitter.

We look forward to your active participation.

Conference website

Date: Wednesday-Thursday, 13-14 April 2022

Palau

Conference Series LLC Ltd invites all participants from around the world to attend the 13th World Summit on Aquaculture and Fisheries from April 28-29, 2022. This global conference features quick presentations, oral lectures, poster presentations and exhibits.

Conference Series LLC Ltd hosts over 3,000 global events, including over 300 conferences, over 500 upcoming and previous symposia and workshops in the United States, Europe, and Asia with the support of an additional 1,000 scientific societies.

Fisheries conference that brings together a unique and international mix of experts, such as aquaculture engineers, researchers and policy makers from academia and industry around the world to exchange knowledge, experience and innovations in research at its world conference on aquaculture, aquaculture is considered the breeding of aquatic organisms, including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Agriculture involves some form of intervention in the breeding process to improve production, such as regular storage, feeding, protection from predators, production gains from various parts of the world and the share that comes from of aquaculture. Aquaculture plays an important role in ensuring a sufficient supply of nutritious food to feed the growing world population. However, this requires a corresponding increase in the feed supply.

This Aquaculture conference will cover new research techniques and focus on aquaculture exposure of novel animal feed, fish welfare, antibiotics, instruments introduced by aquaculture fisheries laboratories. It also covers the increasing needs for demanding seafood. Aquaculture provides fundamental and advanced research on developmental, toxicological and transgenic aspects.

Aquaculture Conference offers the following advantages:

April 28-29, 2022 Osaka, Japan

Sustainable development in the field of aquaculture

https://aquaculture.global-summit.com/

Following the colossal success of our previous conference, Magnus Group invites you to become a part of HYBRID EVENT – “2nd Edition of World Aquaculture and Fisheries Conference” (WAC 2022) scheduled on May 18-19, 2022 at Tokyo, Japan.

WAC 2022 is scheduled in Hybrid Format with both onsite and virtual versions. We believe that our decision will enable broad participation.

The global congress enlightens on the theme “Milestones and impeccable innovations ushering to a new era of aquaculture and fisheries” which acknowledges the recent advancements, newest updates, innovations and challenges that impact the field of fisheries, marine biology and aquaculture.

In the post-pandemic era, feeding the world faces new impediments. This emphasizes the importance of fisheries and aquaculture as viable solutions for supplying high-quality food and nutrition to the world’s growing population. Aquaculture continues to be the world’s fastest-growing food production sector, despite the fact that capture fish production has remained largely stable in recent decades. However, increasing the scale of aquaculture intensification has resulted in a number of concerns that will require long-term solutions. As a result, it’s critical to disseminate information on technological advancements and new modern approaches to sustainable fisheries and aquaculture around the world. This scientific gathering is a positive move in the right direction.

This prestigious conference serves as a global colloquy for international researchers, scientists, academicians, ichthyologists, aquaculture experts, marine biologists and industry giants to present their research findings to the international community. The environment will be vibrant, with open and cordial interaction between attendees, with representatives from academia and industry belonging to all of the major countries. The event is also suited for those who sell products or services or belong to the fisheries, aquaculture and marine biology industries.

We hope to see you at WAC 2022 with a firm belief that it will provide the most beneficial outcomes to the aquaculture and global fisheries industry.

https://www.worldaquacultureconference.com/

Fisheries provide a vital source of food, employment, recreation, trade and economic well-being for people throughout the world. In a world of growing population and persistent hunger, fish has emerged as an important commodity for the achievement of food security. However, efforts by the international community to ensure the sustainability of fisheries are being seriously compromised by illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities are responsible for the loss of 11–26 million tonnes of fish each year, which is estimated to have an economic value of US$10–23 billion. To curtail this impact, Target 4 of Goal 14 of the Sustainable Development Agenda adopted in 2015 by the UN General Assembly, specifically urges the international community to “effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices” by 2020.

Meeting this ambitious target requires strong awareness-raising efforts to draw the attention of the general public to the negative impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities, an activity in which FAO has been actively engaged.

To promote long-term conservation and sustainable use of fisheries resources the 1995 FAO Conference adopted the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. The Code is voluntary and sets out principles and international standards of behavior for responsible practices with a view to ensuring the effective conservation, management and development of living aquatic resources, with due respect for the ecosystem and biodiversity.

In 2009 the FAO Conference adopted the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. The Agreement is binding and stipulates minimum port State measures to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. It entered into force on 5 June 2016.

In 2015, the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean of the FAO proposed that an initiative be launched to declare an International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. Following extensive consultations, a proposal was submitted to the attention of the thirty-second session of FAO Committee on Fisheries.

The Committee on Fisheries endorsed the proposal for the declaration of 5 June as the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. The date reflects the day when the Port State Measures Agreement officially entered into force as an international treaty. The entry into force of this agreement marks an historical event, as it is the first international legally-binding instrument specifically devoted to the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

The proposed draft resolution was submitted to the 40th Session of the FAO Conference (July 2017) for approval. In December 2017 the UN General Assembly in its annual resolution on sustainable fisheries proclaimed 5 June as the “International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.” In the same resolution the UN also declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, which will help focus attention on the small-scale fishermen and women who comprise 90 percent of the world’s fisheries work force.

https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-illegal-fishing-day

The ocean covers over 70% of the planet. It is our life source, supporting humanity’s sustenance and that of every other organism on earth.

The ocean produces at least 50% of the planet’s oxygen, it is home to most of earth’s biodiversity, and is the main source of protein for more than a billion people around the world. Not to mention, the ocean is key to our economy with an estimated 40 million people being employed by ocean-based industries by 2030.

Even though all its benefits, the ocean is now in need of support.

With 90% of big fish populations depleted, and 50% of coral reefs destroyed, we are taking more from the ocean than can be replenished. To protect and preserve the ocean and all it sustains, we must create a new balance, rooted in true understanding of the ocean and how humanity relates to it. We must build a connection to the ocean that is inclusive, innovative, and informed by lessons from the past.

The United Nations celebrates World Oceans Day every year on 8 June.  They consider that day as an opportunity to raise global awareness of the benefits humankind derives from the ocean and our individual and collective duty to use its resources sustainably.

https://unworldoceansday.org/

A two day journey for lovers of seafood.

Meet the captains of the local seafood industry in small intimate groups over a plate of delicious seafood and a glass of wine. Learn how the seafood is grown then harvested and why our seafood is such good quality.

Meet Simon Bryant – Director of Tasting Australia and renowned chef from the ‘Cook and the Chef’ TV series with Maggie Beer.

The event is set at some fabulous locations in Streaky Bay, each venue with renewed chef, an abundance of freshly caught seafood with exquisite matching wine will truly be ‘A Celebration of Seafood’.