The first meeting of the steering committee for Asian Pacific Aquaculture (APA’19) was held in December 2017, in Chennai, India. The meeting was hosted by the Tamil Nadu Fisheries University and organized by World Aquaculture Society-Asian Pacific Chapter. To attract all aquaculture experts from the various regions in India, WAS-APC invited experts from various research institution, universities and association to become members of the APA’19 Steering committee.   

Dr. S. Felix, President-elect WAS APC serves as the National conference chair and Dr. Farshad Shishehchian, Past President of WAS-APC was selected as the International conference chair. Dr. JK Jena, Deputy Director General-Fisheries of ICAR facilitated the cooperation of all the Central and State Fisheries Institutes.

The meeting was attended by Directors, Vice Chancellors and Deans of the central institutes such as CIFE, CIFT, CIFRI, CIBA, and DCWF, as well as state fisheries institutes of Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Lembucherra.

The four APA19 program chairs Dr Mohan Joseph Modayil;  Dr Indrani Karunasagar;  Dr JK Jena (ICAR) and Dr Stephan Sampath Kumar (TNFU) will work together to develop a high quality conference program.  

The Theme of APA19 is "Aquaculture for Health, Wealth and Happiness." APA19 will create a platform for academic, professional and governmental experts.  The APA19 venue will be the Chennai Trade Centre. More information on the event coming soon on www.was.org.