Catharina Nieuwenhuizen from Noba (centre) with Rhiannon White (left) and Andrew Wilkinson (right) from International AquaFeed
Katrine Evans and Hans Erik Bylling the CEO and President of Aller Aqua
this in mind, it is now more important than ever for our industry to get together and share one of the most crucial collective tool that they have at their disposal their collective pool of knowledge. And share they did. Set in some of the EICC’s purpose built conference rooms and split into 60 sessions, almost six hundred academics and industry professionals delivered a proud total of 674 papers in what was an incredibly well orchestrated and elaborate network of conferences that covered almost every aspect of aquaculture. Meanwhile, down in the main conference room an impressive assortment of 75 companies and organisations plied their trade, forming new friendships and business relationships in the process. As well as the exhibitions and conferences, each day began with a plenary session; with each presenting a very unique insight into the aquaculture industry. Following the conclusion of the plenary sessions, a short coffee break was then swiftly followed by the commencement of an impressive array of “Parallel Sessions.” One very minor issue was that the scheduling of the parallel sessions often saw a clash of two fantastic lectures; which presented one with a dilemma as to which talk to attend! However, such was the quality
Cliona Ni Cheallachain and Claudia Junge from AquaTT
Darren Hanson, David Goldsmith and Robert Adam from Xylem Aubert Faivre centre with two French fish farmers Paio Juantorena left and Phillippe Jorgensen right
Olga Tarakanova from IMV TECH Jamie McDevitt-Irwin and Shawn Glover from Industrial Plankton
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