Thirteenth Flemish Aquaculture Symposium

Introduction:

• Welcome
  Sylvie Becaus (Marifish.inc)
• Goals of the event 
  Ann Vanreusel (EMBRC-BE)
• Vlaams Aquacultuur Platform
  Stefan Teerlinck (Inagro)

Opening keynote:

Prospects of seaweed cultivation and the opportunities of seaweed sustainable aquaculture 
Philippe Potin (Sorbonne University)

Sustainable aquaculture in open sea

• Offshore aquaculture in Belgian windparks; lessons learned from the UNITED and ULTFARMS projects 
  Jessica Knoop, Annelies Declercq & Olivier De Clerck (Ghent University)
• The Belgian vision on sustainable aquaculture in the Belgian part of the North Sea. 
  Tine Miet Van Maele (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
• tbc. 
  (ILVO)

Land-based aquaculture: a sustainable alternative for marine-based aquaculture?

• Engineering for the Optimisation of Land-Based Marine Aquaculture of Coastal Shellfish. 
  Katja Philippart (NIOZ, Utrecht University)
• tbc
  Willy Verdonck (Belgian Caviar)
• BlueMarine3 project 
  Vincent Vermeylen (Ghent University)
• tbc. 
  Eric Wakkee (OOS International)
• tbc. 
  Johan Verreth (Wageningen University & Research)

Restorative aquaculture

• Feeding the future: Redefining Responsible Feed for Aquaculture. 
  Maurane Martin Hernandez (Aquaculture Stewardship Council) 
• Reefcovery project. 
  Molly Hughes (Ghent University)
• Restoration in ULTFARMS - Artificial Hard substrate garden. 
  Wannes De Clercq (Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences)
• Towards restorative aquaculture of flat oysters (Ostrea edulis) in northern Europe: a modeling approach. 
  Brecht Stechele

Belgian initiatives in a context of ecological sustainable aquaculture

• Ecological sustainability in financing aquaculture. 
  Sofie Van Den Hende (Blue Cluster)
• Environmental challenges related to cultivation of mussels in the North Sea. 
  Donaat Mortelmans (Colruyt - Sea farm)
• Innovative monitoring of aquaculture - multibeam measurements to predict bivalve crops. 
  Thomas Vandorpe (VLIZ)