EAS is proud to announce the AE2010 Gold Sponsorship of Portuguese aquafeed company, AQUASOJA.
AQUASOJA is the fish feed brand of SORGAL, SA. SORGAL, SA is part of a large Portuguese agro-industrial group. SORGAL has produced quality feeds for animal farming for more than 50 years and has always conducted its activities focussing on cost-effectiveness, animal welfare and feed safety as top priorities. Visit Aquasoja

Aquaculture Europe 2010 wil be held in the beatiful city of Porto, Portugal from October 5-8, 2010.
Abstract submission and conference registration are now available online
Please submit your abstract to AE2010 and become part of Europe's major aquaculture event.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS APRIL 15, 2010.

EAS-SG has a special offer for students and young people renewing their EAS membership for 2010 or joining EAS for the first time! Five randomly choosen EAS-SG members will be drawn for the following EAS-SG presents: 1."Options méditerranéennes" from the CIHEAM. A book entitled "The use of veterinary drugs and vaccines in Mediterranean aquaculture"; 2. A book from CIHEAM entitled "Advances in fish reproduction and their application to brrodstock management: a practical manual for sea bass"; 3. an EAS-SG T-shirt; 4. an EAS-SG 2G USB pendrive; 5. an EAS-SG 2G USB pendrive. The deadline for application for EAS membership and joining EAS-SG  is February 14. We hope you will enjoy and benefit from the EAS Student Group and are open for all your ideas! So mail us to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we’ll be pleased to take into account all your needs!

Aquaculture without Frontiers (AwF) has launched its online appeal to solicit donations from the global aquaculture industry and interested public to support its objective of alleviating poverty by improving livelihoods in developing countries. AwF has created an online secure donor page at its website at www.aquaculturewithoutfrontiers.org where companies and individuals can make donations using their credit card.

Aquaculture International (AQUI), our scientific journal is planning a new section called “Perspectives”. This contains short papers that describe in which direction a particular area of research is likely to develop.  Papers under “perspectives” would be available free of charge on the website of the journal “Aquaculture International” and would also be advertised in Aquaculture Europe. Knowing that writing articles is time consuming we are encouraging EAS members and others to send available text that would be more or less ready for publishing. “The state of the art and progress beyond” as required by FP7 or other project proposals could be ideal for that. Please send material to Gavin Burnell at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it For presenters of papers or posters at our AE2009 conference in Trondheim this summer, please also consider its publication in AQUI. Information for authors and submission is available here.

The AQUA-TNET PhD portal - http://www.phdportal.ugent.be - is a very interesting source where scientific and background information on finished doctoral research work throughout Europe is available. Over 100 PhD theses are now uploaded, with new PhD's adding every week. You can find (links to) full PhD - manuscripts, abstracts, related articles and author information. When available and free of copyright and privacy hampering, on-demand video streaming of the PhD - defence is possible.

Mercator Media, organisers of the Offshore Mariculture Conference 2010, have announced new dates for the conference, which will now be held from the 16-18 June 2010 at the Hilton Imperial Hotel, Dubrovnik, Croatia.  The technical conference will be held on the 16/17 June whilst fish farm visits will take place on the 18 June.  A gala dinner will be held on the 16 June at which guests will be able to view Dubrovnik at its best.  See http://www.offshoremariculture.com/programme.cfm

Draft standards for sustainable bivalve farming, created by the 300-plus participants of the Bivalve Aquaculture Dialogue, have been prepared and are available for comment. Final standards are expected by mid-2010. The standards will be for all cultivated bivalves, including clams, oysters, mussels and scallops. Issues addressed in the standards include organic enrichment, ecological carrying capacity and biosecurity. Anybody can provide input by reviewing the standards and completing the comment form, which are both available at www.worldwildlife.org/bivalvedialogue.