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What future for Mediterranean Marine Aquaculture?
22-23 November 2007 - Athens

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THURSDAY 22^ND NOVEMBER 2007 SESSION 1: REGIONAL Development & ROLE OF RESEARCH
Time		Issue	Speaker
08:30		Registration in Elektra Palace Hotel
09:30		Official Opening	A. Kontos Minister of Rural Development and Food
			T. Skilakakis General Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs
			P. Papastavrou President, Hellenic Export Promotion Organization
			John Stephanis FEAP President
09:45		Opening Remarks on Profet Policy, Background on Research Compilation	Courtney Hough (FEAP) - Project Coordinator
10:00		EU Maritime Policy and the implications to Mediterranean Aquaculture	Waddah SAAB Member of Cabinet for Commissioner Joe Borg (Fisheries and Maritime Affairs)
10:30		European policies and their effects on the development of Mediterranean Aquaculture	Prof. Basil Stephanis (President of Selonda Group)
11:00		Relevance of European and National aquaculture research to the Mediterranean Producers	Gustavo Larrazábal (President Tinamenor Group)
SESSION 2: POLICY & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
Time	Issue		Speaker
11.50	Review of the Commission's Strategy for the Sustainable Development of Aquaculture		Dr.Jean Weissenberger (Aquaculture Unit - Directorate General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs - European Commission)
12:30	Aquaculture and its interface with the Environment		Despina Symons (EBCD - IUCN consultant)
12:50	Questions and Answers with Speakers of Sessions 1 & 2

SESSION 3: RTD NEEDS RELATED TO EUROPEAN POLICIES
Time	Issue	Speaker
14.00	Fish Health Management - RTD contributions, needs and choices available for the future.	Dr. Panos Christofilogiannis (General Manager AQUARK)
14.30	Marine Protected areas or aquaculture in the coastal zone? Choice or combination? The needs of governance	Nikos Anagnopoulos (General Manager LAMANS S.A)
14.50	Are aquaculture products adapted to consumer demands? - Consumer studies	Dr. Filiep Vanhonacker (Dept of Agricultural Economics, Un. of Gent)
	Are aquaculture products adapted to consumer demands? - Fish Farmers perspective	Dr. Massimo Caggiano (Manager in Panittica Pugliese)
SESSION 4: RTD NEEDS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Time	Issue	Speaker
16.00	Community Research Support for Mediterranean Aquaculture in FP6	Dr. Stamatis Varsamos (DG Ffisheries and Maritime Affairs, European Commission)
16.20	What do we mean by ‘sustainability'? - CONSENSUS	Alistair Lane (EAS Executive Director)
16.40	Sustainable feeds for fish farming - a review of progress and the issues (FORM and Aquamax)	Dr Douglas Tocher (Nutrition Group, Institute of Aquaculture University of Stirling, Aquamax Partner)
17.00	Present and Future status of Mediterranean fry production	Pavlina Pavlidou (Hatcheries Division Manager, Selonda Group)
17.30	Effluent treatment in aquaculture: science and practice (AQUAETREAT Project)	Dr. Georgia Bressani (University of Salento)
17.45	Questions and Answers with Speakers of Sessions 3 & 4

FRIDAY 23^rd NOVEMBER 2007
SESSION 5: SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT
Time	Issue		Speaker
09:00		Introduction on the work of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament related to Mediterranean Aquaculture.	J. Gklavakis EMP- Member of Fisheries Committee
09.10	Morpho-anatomical abnormalities in reared fish: An important issue of product quality, consumer perception, production cost & management, and animal welfare		Prof. George Koumoundouros (Biology Dept. Univ of Patras)
09.30	AQUAGENOME - how genomics can help the fish and shellfish sectors		Dr. Georgios Kotoulas Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics -IMBG Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
09:50	Tuna: Closing the cycle - a dream or reality?		Dr. Constantinos Mylonas (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Crete REPRO-DOTT project)
10:20	The need for knowledge on the professional sector - Data collection		Jon A. Grottum (Norwegian Seafood Federation FHL)
10.40	Interactions with the Environment - a review of current knowledge		Assoc. Prof. Ioannis Karakassis (Dept of Biology, Univ. Of Crete)

SESSION 6: FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDS
Time	Issue		Speaker
11.15	Questions that need answers - future research requirements and European Aquaculture Technology Platform		Courtney Hough (FEAP General Secretary) & John Stephanis (FEAP President)
11.30	Skill Development and technology transfer mechanisms Presentation AquaTT Athens		David Murphy (General manager AquaTT)
11.45	7^th Framework Programme - impact on and opportunities for aquaculture		Mario Lopes Santos (DG Research European Commission)
12.00	Discussion with Workshop Participants		Moderated by Prof. Nikos Margaris (Aquatic Ecosystems Laboratory University of the Aegean)
12.30	Conclusions and recommendations		Rapporteur: Courtney Hough (FEAP General Secretary)

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