World Aquaculture Society Calendar of Events
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2025
March 2025
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
The Triennial is the largest aquaculture conference and tradeshow held in the world with nearly 4,000 attendees from over 90 countries and even more countries are expected to have attendees at AQUACULTURE 2025. The Triennial combines the annual meetings of the National Shellfisheries Association, Fish Culture Section of the American Fisheries Society, World Aquaculture Society, and the National Aquaculture Association. In addition to the annual meetings of the main sponsors, look what else is happening at AQUACULTURE 2025!
AQUACULTURE AMERICA - Annual Meeting of USAS, the U.S. Chapter of World Aquaculture Society and the Aquaculture Suppliers Association.
Annual Meeting of the U.S. Trout Farmers Association
Special sessions organized by Aquacultural Engineering Society and International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management
Many other meetings of working groups, government agencies and related aquaculture activities
Program with technical sessions and producers seminars covering virtually all species grown in aquaculture
AND - look at all of the Associate Sponsors on the cover who are participating in the program development!
The last Triennial was held in 2022 in San Diego where it was pronounced a huge success by over 3,000 people who attended. Don’t miss this Triennial!
April 2025
Location: Qingdao, China
WORLD AQUACULTURE 2025 CHINA will be held in Qingdao, China with involvement from countries throughout the Asian-Pacific region and around the world.
World Aquaculture 2025 will visit China again after the first successful meeting in World Aquaculture 2002 , more than 20 years ago. Aquaculture is rapidly growing in the Asian-Pacific region and increasingly in China, therefore 2025 is the perfect time for the World Aquaculture community to focus on China again at Qingdao City. Qingdao plays an important role in China’s maritime development with its advanced marine economy, robust marine industry and strong foundation in marine fishery, marine equipment manufacturing, and marine transportation. Ocean University of China, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, the Institute of Oceanography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences located here. Qingdao Port, the fourth largest port in the world, is emerging as an international shipping hub in Northeast Asia.
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