Aquaculture continues to increase its importance to Africa’s economies in a number of ways - in providing sustainable and nutritious food to the continent’s fast-growing populations, to jobs and improved livelihoods. The WAS initiated the annual Aquaculture Africa Conferences (AFRAQs) which have been a great success, starting in Egypt (2022) and in Zambia (2023). These annual meetings brought together a wide variety of aquaculturists from the commercial, academic, government sectors and NGO sectors to celebrate the sector’s achievements, but also to find solutions to some of the challenges the sector faces. Tunisia will host the 3rd Aquaculture Africa Conference (AFRAQ24) on 19-22 November 2024, at its majestic city of Hammamet – a popular holiday destination on the Mediterranean coastline. Tunisia is currently amongst Africa’s top aquaculture producing countries and also one of the world’s fastest average annual growth rate. The country is the second biggest aquaculture producer country in North Africa region, after Egypt and is looking forward to expand the sector owing to the competitive advantages on its blue economy domain. In addition to appraising Tunisia’s fast-growing aquaculture sector, bringing AFRAQ24 to the country is expected to inspire the African French and Arabic communities. It is expected to be a gateway platform to connect Africa to European aquaculture actors.

AlgaEurope is a unique opportunity to learn and understand all about algae production and commercialization and interact with over 400 key players from more than 45 countries. One of the key success factors of AlgaEurope is the close cooperation between EABA - European Algae Biomass Association and DLG Benelux. The main target of EABA is to act as a catalyst for fostering synergies among scientists, industrialists, and decision-makers in order to promote the development of research, technology, and industrial capacities in the field of Algae. DLG Benelux is part of DLG International: the leading German consulting company of the DLG group for the Agribusiness and Food Industry offering international expertise in setting up trade fairs and providing project management and consultancy services - national and international. Read more about EABA and DLG Benelux.

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!

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.