Event: LACQUA´13

The IV Conference of Latin America Native Fish Species Aquaculture, the Latin American and Caribbean Aquaculture (LACQUA´13), the XIX Aquaculture Day of the Universidad de los Llanos and the VI Aquaculture Forum in Villavicencio will bring together in Colombia aquaculture farmers, entrepreneurs and experts of the entire Latin American region and the World.

The Conference of Latin American Native Fish Species Aquaculture on its 4^th edition will be congregate fish farmers, entrepreneurs and experts of Latin America and the world. This event will allow participants to share scientific advances, latest technologies, research results as well as obtain an overview of the actual situation and challenges of the Latin American aquaculture.

The organizing team, headed by the Universidad de los Llanos with the support of the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society (LACC-WAS) expects more than 600 professionals of the aquaculture sector to be present in the meeting in Villavicencio. The participants will be able to attend several key note lectures offered by well renown experts from around the world, as well as exchange research ideas and analyze business options of an important array of worldwide companies that will be present. In this opportunity LACC-WAS will participate in the event presenting the event LACQUA. The World Aquaculture Society (WAS) organises several events worldwide. LACQUA´13 will be the first event of its type in the Latin American and the Caribbean region.

“We have been working hard to bring presenters that could offer the participants a general overview of key subjects that need attention on the aquaculture sector. Some of these topics are physiology, nutrition, endocrinology and toxicology, as well as nutrition and feeding, genetics and breeding, aquatic health, animal welfare, water quality and sustainable production systems. This event will also focus on important topics for the productive sector as processing, value added process, marketing and associativity” commented the team of organizers from the Universidad de los Llanos.

The organising committee will like to invite all the aquaculturists of the region to participate in

the series of activities that conform the event, which goal is to offer possible solutions to the problems that the sector is experiencing as well as to promote the sharing of knowledge on the culture of fish native species and other species of economic relevance as tilapia, trout, shrimp, among others.

For more information and to register to participate please visit the webpages www.was.org and www.conferenciapecesnativos2013.com

For more information on the exhibition and sponsorship contact: mario@marevent.com

 LACQUA´13