12 DECEMBER 2013 • WORLD AQUACULTURE • WWW.WAS.ORG Aquaculture CanadaOM 2014 June 1-‐4, 2014 St. Andrews, New Brunswick “AAC 30th Anniversary – Excellence in Research & Innova9on” This is an exciDng year for the Aquaculture AssociaDon of Canada as it marks our 30th Anniversary! There have been numerous innovaDons in the aquaculture industry over the past 30 years and we want to celebrate the contribuDons that the AssociaDon and its members have had on the successful development of the industry in Canada. “Excellence in Research & InnovaDon” is the theme of our annual Aquaculture Canada OM conference to be held in June 2014 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. The annual conference serves as the main event for the AssociaDon and is Canada’s naDonal forum to bring together the business, science and technology of aquaculture. Conference coordinator: Joanne Burry -‐ Tel : 709-‐437-‐7203 | Email : jmburry@nl.rogers.com www.aquacultureassociaDon.ca The Tenth International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture (ISTA10) was held in Jerusalem, Israel, October 6-10, 2013. The location was selected to recognize the many contributions of Israeli scientists and farmers to the global tilapia industry and to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the first ISTA held in Nazareth. The rapid expansion of tilapia farming and consumption had much of its genesis with the domestication of tilapias in Israel and with the publicity generated with biblical references and the large number of tourists visiting the country and trying tilapia, or St. Peter’s fish, for the first time. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Gideon Hulata and co-hosted by several Israeli aquaculture groups. The major co-sponsors included AquaMaof and MoafMadan, Raanan Fish Feeds, Zemach Feed Mill, DSM, TransAlgae, and the AquaFish Innovation Lab. Mr. Yair Shamir, Israeli Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Mr. Nayon Bilijo, Ghana’s Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development opened the symposium and ISTA 10: Tenth International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture Kevin Fitzsimmons participated in the events of the first day with participants from more than 40 countries. Three days of presentations followed, with a final day of field trips to tilapia farms in the Bet She’an Valley, the Zemach Feed Mill, and a tilapia luncheon with pilgrims at a Jordan River baptism site. Recent Advances The US-Israel Binational Agriculture Research and Development Fund (BARD) provided funds for a pre-conference workshop on tilapia endocrinology. Michal Shpilman and Berta Levavi-Sivan gave a presentation on tilapia leptin and leptin receptor. This was the first detailed description of leptin, which plays a critical in reproduction and regulation of food intake and energy expenditure. Two leptins and one leptin receptor were described along with details on the base-pair lengths of the cDNA. Information was provided on the three-dimensional structures and details on the proteins and where leptin receptors are expressed
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