There are still a few days left to book your place at the Asia Pacific feed industry conferences. Join your colleagues and feed industry professionals from throughout Asia Pacific and beyond at Aquafeed Horizons Asia and the FIAAP Conference in Bangkok April 8 and 9, 2014. These international meetings bring you practically focused information to support your quest to produce high quality, cost effective feeds and improve your profitability.

FEFAC, the European Compound Feed Manufacturers? Federation, is to organize a stakeholder workshop April 8, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium, to examine the current and future options for sustainable fish feed sources in order to meet the policy objectives set out in the new Common Fisheries Policy, as well as to discuss market and consumer acceptance of innovations in the field of sustainable fish feed sources

As Bangkok returns to normal, organizers say FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia 2014 has got bigger: in fact for the first time it is now totally booked, with no room for any more exhibitors; this also means that it is 20 per cent larger than the last successful event organised in Bangkok in 2012

Vibrio species, including Vibrio parahaemolyticus, appear to be highly sensitive to a natural feed additive composed of a synergistic blend of antimicrobial compounds. Recent research is shows that as well as direct bactericide/bacteriostatic effects, selected combinations of antimicrobial compounds are at the basis of more complex mechanisms to steer microbiota composition, i.e. Quorum Sensing (QS) disruption. QS disruptors are increasingly investigated as alternatives to antibiotics due to their efficacy at low concentrations and the low chance of bacteria developing resistance against these non-lethal molecules. Research has shown that synergistic blends of natural antimicrobial compounds can function as powerful interrupters of bacterial QS signaling in a typical aquaculture pathogen such as Vibrio harveyi at concentrations well below minimal inhibitory concentrations.

The worldwide growth in Aquaculture is prompting the industry to consider selective breeding as a potential area to increase production and efficiency

For many businesses, innovation is a guarantee of future success, but in the case of Lego it came close to bringing its downfall. In 2003, despite having followed a path of intense innovation and successfully applying the advice of many experts, this globally iconic brand found itself virtually out of money and with a portfolio of products that was failing to win over consumers. At AquaVision 2014, Professor David Robertson will explain how Lego turned its fortunes around to become one of the healthiest, most profitable and fastest growing companies in the toy industry today.

10th International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture (ICRA), taking place at The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. In addition to publishing a 1-2 page abstract in the conference proceedings, authors will share their research through an oral presentation or as a poster. Abstracts will be edited and published in a volume of proceedings, which will be available at the conference

Professor Wing-Keong Ng, Fish Nutrition Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia will present the results of new studies on organic acids as a functional feed additive in the commercial feeds of tilapia and shrimp at Aquafeed Horizons Asia 2014.

Scientific papers for oral or poster presentation are invited for the International Conference of Aquaculture Indonesia 2014 (ICAI 2014), taking place June 20-21, 2014 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

Emerging leaders in the aquaculture industry will be recognized at this year?s World Aquaculture Adelaide conference in June. Bursaries of up to $2,000 each will be awarded to ten outstanding young Australian aquaculture industry people by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), giving them the opportunity to attend the international conference on their home soil

FIAAP Asia, VICTAM Asia & GRAPAS Asia 2014 will be held at BITEC, Bangkok from April 8-10, 2014. Over 200 exhibitors from all over the world will be displaying the latest developments in the ingredients, additives and processing technology used in the manufacture of animal feeds, rice and flour milling and grain processing

The theme for AquaVision 2014 is Meeting tomorrow today, and the two-day program will discuss three main topics: Feeding 9 billion people, The blue revolution and Beyond tomorrow. The biggest challenges in the world today can only be overcome when the big players ? governments, corporations and NGOs ? find a way to work together strategically. Sir Bob Geldof will delve into this topic in his keynote speech at AquaVision 2014.

The American Feed Industry Association?s annual Purchasing & Ingredient Suppliers Conference is quickly approaching. This year?s PISC will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 12-14, inside Caesars Palace Hotel. The early-bird deadline and hotel cut-off are this Friday, February 7

The 5th edition of BioMarine will take place at the Estoril Congress Center, Cascais, Portugal, October 30-31,2014; website released

In continuing its efforts to fast-track commercialization of the algae production industry, the National Algae Association\'s next workshop will be held, February 28, 2014 at Kessil Lighting in Richmond, CA, USA. The focus will be on progress in commercial algae cultivation, harvesting and extraction methods and technologies, along with proven technologies that are ready for commercial-scale algae production and moving towards standardization

Victam International, the organizers of the feed and grain processing exhibitions in Bangkok and Cologne, will celebrate its 50th Anniversary during its next event in Germany; the organizers promise surprises in store.

Special rates for early registration to the 7th Aquafeed Horizons, Aquafeed.com\'s international conference for aquafeed industry professionals, have been extended to February 15.

Registration is now open for the ?AFIA-520: Advanced Feed Safety & Quality Assurance Protocols? distance education program. The online course, sponsored by the American Feed Industry Association and Kansas State University, will provide a better understanding of feed safety and quality assurance issues impacting feed manufacturing including how to prepare and respond to the implementation of the timely Food Safety Modernization Act. It will also offer training tools to improve feed safety and feed quality.

Future Fish Eurasia, the 7th International Fair for Fish Imports/Exports, Processing, Aquaculture and Fisheries will be organised by Eurasia Trade Fairs at the Izmir International Fair Centre between 05 07 June 2014

Special rates for early registration at Aquafeed Horizons Asia, taking place in Bangkok April 8, 2014, close January 31. Organizers strongly advise you to reserve your place at this popular conference now, while places are available