The Pacific Island Aquaculture Session covers the status of aquaculture in the Pacific, the challenges, and the opportunities. Invited and unsolicited contributions will summarise key learnings from success stories, examine current trends and directions and identify challenges and priorities. Particular attention will be paid to tilapia aquaculture and the challenges with supply of feeds and fingerlings. However, the session is also open for presentations on the role of other aquaculture systems – in inland and coastal regions – for contributing to future food supplies and social and economic development within the region. All aspects of aquaculture production and the value chain, from production systems, feed and seed supply, private enterprise development, investment, market systems and social, gender, economic and environmental dimensions may be discussed.
The Session will conclude with a one-hour panel session which will solicit expert knowledge from the invited panel and the audience. The panel members will include: Geoff Allan, Leo Nankervis, Michael Phillips, Jacob Wani, Jes Sammut, Joshua Noiney, Tim Pickering, Chinthaka Hewavitharane, Jharendu Pant, Zechariah Harohau. A series of open-ended questions will be posed, including: