18 JUNE 2018 • WORLD AQUACULTURE • WWW.WAS.ORG Plenary Speakers for LACQUA18 The LACQUA18 conference organizing committee has confirmed the participation of Drs. Alejandro Flores and Sara Patricia Bonilla in the opening plenary of the conference. Alejandro Flores is an Aquaculture Engineer from the Mar Technological Institute of Veracruz, Mexico. He joined the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2009, where he has been Coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Team for South America, as well as FAO representative in Argentina and Chile. He currently serves as Senior Officer of Fisheries and Aquaculture for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has conducted processes such as the formulation of National Plans and Policies for the Development of Aquaculture and Fisheries in Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. In FAO, he has led regional processes to promote the sustainable development of aquaculture and fisheries. He has also conducted a regional program to strengthen the capacities of aquaculturists with limited resources, for their self-sustainability and inclusion in markets beyond their communities. Sara Patricia Bonilla has been the Executive Director of the Colombian Federation of Aquaculture Producers (FEDEACUA) since 2012. Since 2004 his professional career has been developed in the area of aquaculture. She was Executive Vice President of Acuanal, a guild of shrimp producers in Colombia and also worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as National Technical Secretary of the Aquaculture Chain. As Executive Director, Sara Patricia leads the Quality Program in the aquaculture sector in Colombia, which aims to implement Good Aquaculture Practices, and which has had favorable results for the Colombian fish industry, reflected in the increase in Colombian exports, positioning the country as the second supplier of fresh tilapia fillets to the United States. On October 25, a special session will be held on a UNIDO regional project on “Improvement of Productivity and Competitiveness of the Value Chains of Fisheries in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region.” The coordinator of the session will be Alejandro Rivera Rojas, Program Officer of the Latin American and Caribbean Division of UNIDO. This session will present the regional action plan, results by country and continuity proposals, as well as the presentation of the Technical Guide on the application of resource efficiency and cleaner production in the shrimp farming sector. Farm Tours for LACQUA18 Within the framework of the event, the possibility of two visits to aquaculture production systems will be offered: Option 1: visit to the production company of rainbow trout and vegetables in aquaponic system. Option 2: visit to a production system of red tilapia in biofloc, with a subsequent trip to the company producing ornamental fish and aquatic plants. The two tours will be held on Tuesday, October 23 and Saturday, October 27, so you can attend a tour every day. Awards in the categories of Review Article, Applied Studies, and Fundamental Studies. All papers are available at onlinelibrary.wiley. com or under Publications at www.was.org. In the category of Review Article, the 2017 Best Paper Award has been awarded to Robert Pomeroy, Hap Navy, Alice Joan Ferrer, and Agus H. Purnomo for their paper entitled “Linkages and Trust in the Value Chain for Small-scale Aquaculture in Asia” (JWAS 48(4):542–554). In the category of Applied Studies, the 2017 Best Paper Award has been awarded to Claude E. Boyd, Aaron A. McNevin, Phoebe Racine, Huynh Quoc Tinh, Hang Ngo Minh, Rawee Viriyatum, Duangchai Paungkaew, and Carole Engle for their paper entitled “Resource Use Assessment of Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon, Production in Thailand and Vietnam” (JWAS 48(2):201-226). In the category of Fundamental Studies, the 2017 Best Paper Award has been awarded to Yongxin Liu, Runqing Yang, Yi Liu, and Fei Si for their paper entitled “Use of Microsatellite DNA Profiling to Identify Japanese Flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus of Hatchery Origin” (JWAS 48(2):353-359). 2017 Best Article in World Aquaculture Every year, the WAS Board of Directors sponsors a monetary award ($100) to the authors of the best article published in World Aquaculture magazine as a way to encourage high-quality submissions. The WAS Honors and Awards Committee has selected the article by Andrew D. Suhrbier, Daniel P. Cheney, Jeffery R. Cordell, William F. Dewey, Jonathan P. Davis and João G. Ferreira on “Innovative Farming Methods for Production and Harvest of Manila Clams in Washington State, USA.” The article appeared in the December 2017 issue of World Aquaculture. Congratulations to Andrew and his co-authors! Montpellier and Bogotá, continued from page 17 2017 Outstanding Reviewers, continued from page 16 New Book in the WAS Online Store Cleaner Fish Biology and Aquaculture Applications reviews and presents new knowledge on the biology of the utilized cleaner fish species, and provides protocols in cleaner fish rearing, deployment, health and welfare. ISBN: 9781912158218, 464 pages, hardcover.
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