Aquaculture will be on the center stage at the next edition of the international Feed to Food exhibition VIV Asia, taking place in Bangkok, Thailand on March 15-17. The special event called ‘Aquatic’ features a pre-show conference, several show-time seminars and a pavilion of exhibitors at VIV Asia whose primary purpose is to reach out with products or services for the aquaculture sector. “At the 2017 edition we are responding to our surveys and feedback showing that aquaculture is highly relevant to VIV Asia’s audience. In 2015 we received about 38,500 visitors and over 19% of them reported an interest in the production of fish or shrimp.”

AFIA’s 2017 Purchasing & Ingredient Suppliers Conference will take place March 7-9, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress hotel in Orlando, Florida. More than 550 buyers and sellers of feed and pet food ingredients are expected to gather at the three-day annual event. Register before Jan. 17, 2017, to receive the early-bird rate.

The 8th Expo Pesca and AcuiPerú, a growing international fisheries and aquaculture tradeshow, will take place on November 08 - 10, 2017 in Lima, Peru. This specialized event is the largest in its sector in Latin America and has been held in Peru every two years since 2003 to promote and support the sale of equipment, supplies and services for fisheries and aquaculture.

The GIANT PRAWN 2017 International Conference and Exhibition will be held at the Asian Institute in Technology in Thailand from March 20 - 24, 2017. The deadline for early bird registration and online abstract submission is December 31, 2016.

The National Algae Association non-profit education and algae production trade association is inviting students, algaepreneur\'s and private industry starting a new Algae Production Incubator Program in Houston, Texas. Participants will learn and receive hands-on training in algae cultivation, harvesting and extraction methods and technologies for potential nutraceutical Omega 3 EPA/DHA, cosmetics, food, feeds, biofertilizer and bioplastics.

FEFAC and AFACA, representing the European and Andalusian Animal Feed Industry respectively, have announced the 2017 FEFAC Congress and the Animal Nutrition Congress will take place in Cordoba Spain next June. FEFAC and AFACA are aiming to include expert sessions dedicated to the role of animal nutrition in key societal challenges including fighting antimicrobial resistance and stimulating circular economies in the feed and livestock sector.

The Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) will hold the 6th edition of its annual event \'Aquaculture in Motion\' on the 7th December 2016 in Brussels together with FEFAC.

Registration is now open for \"AFIA-500: Fundamentals of Feed Manufacturing,\" an event sponsored by the American Feed Industry Association in partnership with Kansas State University. The five-week, e-learning program will cover topics including the process flow from particle size reduction to batching and mixing, conditioning and pelleting, boilers, post-pellet systems, packaging and loadout, and maintenance.

The 7th European Algae Industry Summit (formerly \"European Algae Biomass\") will take place on 26th & 27th April 2017 in Nice, France. The two day conference will bring together key players within the algae industry including leaders from food, feed, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics across the globe. A day prior the conference, a limited number of summit delegates will have a unique opportunity to join an exclusive site visit to the Augusto Parodi Group facility in Camporosso.

VIV Asia 2017 will feature a Special Aquatic Segment at it\\\'s satellite event called Pet Health and Nutrition. The \'Aquatic\' Segment will consist of a conference, seminars and an expo pavilion.

The fourth workshop in a series of Aquamimicry Sustainable Shrimp Workshops will take place January 9-13, 2017 in Bangkok, Hua Hin. At this workshop, organizers will be presenting Aquamimicry Indoor, a supeintensive shrimp farming under greenhouse condition developed by Glen Cho from Aquamimicry Korea.

Themed “Sustainable Aquaculture – New Frontiers for Economic Growth – Spotlight on Africa”, World Aquaculture 2017 will bring together some 3,000 industry, academic and government delegates from the 100 member countries of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS), in Cape Town, South Africa, from 26-30 June 2017. Representing the coming of age of African aquaculture and a significant milestone for the global aquaculture community, the WAS plans to launch its Africa Chapter at the conference.

Aquafeed Horizons 2017 will be one of six high quality feed and grain industry conferences to be held over the two days of FVG Select, a new networking event organized by Victam International. This two-day event, from the leading feed and grain industry exhibition organizers, will be conference led with a strong emphasis on providing networking opportunities through personalized facilitators and digital services. There will also be a supporting exhibition and a number of hospitality suites.

In less than two months, algae enthusiasts from around the world will gather in Madrid to discuss and exchange information on all things algae. The program is currently being finalized, as over 160 abstracts have been submitted by researchers from 37 different countries. The 11 sessions give a good impression of the multitude of topics that will be discussed...

VIV worldwide has announced that VIV China 2018 will move to Nanjing, the capital city of China\'s Jiangsu province. The conference is scheduled for September 17th-19th, 2018 and the venue in Nanjing is the NIEC exhibition centre. A new concept for VIV China will be developed, with more activities and with a clearer focus on the different target groups per day. “We have decided that it is time for something new, an exploration of the fresh opportunities and activities offered by a change of location. The move will allow our exhibitors to extend their sales networks and contacts to other parts of China.\"

A one week Practical Short Course on Feeds & Pet Food Extrusion will be presented Jan. 29 - Feb. 3, 2017 at Texas A&M University by staff, industry representatives, and consultants. The program will cover information on designing new feed mills and selecting conveying, drying, grinding, conditioning and feed mixing equipment.

The 10th in the series of international conferences for the commercial aquafeed industry will focus on advances in processing and formulation, that offer practical solutions to aquafeed companies in terms of product development, production efficiency, quality improvements and profitability. Papers are now invited from qualified presenters.

Pre-registration for GAA\'s GOAL 2017 conference, to be held at historic Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland from October 3 to 6, 2017, is open. Pre-registrants qualify for a special rate and will be first to be notified when registration opens in early 2017.

USSEC’s aquaculture program recently welcomed an experienced marine fish broodstock expert, Dr. Robert Vassallo Agius, to Thailand to speak primarily to the Asian sea bass hatchery industry. The target of the presentation was to highlight the importance of formulated broodstock feeds as both a biosecurity measure and for better production.

Aquaculture Europe 2016, held in Edinburgh during the 40th anniversary of the European Aquaculture Society, was the most successful Aquaculture Europe event to date, with a total of 1,700 participants from 65 countries. This year\'s conference, held at the Edinburgh International Conference Center, surpassed previous AE event participation in 2014 San Sebastian (1,450), 2015 Rotterdam (1,087) and 2011 Rhodes (1,029). The theme of the event was “Food for Thought” and this was addressed by three plenary sessions that paved the way for the 32 parallel sessions of oral and poster presentations derived from a record submission of 714 abstracts.