WORLD-LEADING MARINE BIOLOGIST ANNOUNCED AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR SEAFOOD DIRECTIONS CONFERENCE

World-leading marine biologist announced as keynote speaker for Seafood Directions Conference. Seafood Industry Australia (SIA), the national peak-body representing Australia’s commercial seafood industry, has announced pre-eminent marine biologist and fisheries scientist, Professor Ray Hilborn as a keynote speaker for their leading biennial conference, Seafood Directions, to be held in Brisbane in September.

“It is with great pleasure we announce Professor Ray Hilborn as a keynote speaker for the Seafood Directions Conference 2022, which will be held at the Sofitel Brisbane from September 13-15, under the theme ‘One Voice, One Future’,” SIA CEO Veronica Papacosta said.

“Ray is a world-leading Professor at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, specialising in natural resource management and conservation, who will present a talk titled, ‘How to sustain food from the seas while protecting marine ecosystems’.”

“I am excited to be able to travel again and reconnect with Australian colleagues at the Seafood Directions conference,” Professor Hilborn said.

“The [global] seafood industry faces unprecedented challenges in access to the ocean, but also some exciting opportunities and needs to be prepared to face these challenges in a unified way.

“The conference theme, ‘One Voice, One Future’, is spot on for where researchers and commercial seafood producers, both capture and aquaculture need to be as they move forward.

“Seafood is the best way to produce food while protecting natural ecosystems and this message needs to be made clear to national and international policy makers.”

“The Seafood Directions conference will provide a forum for industry leaders and innovators across aquaculture, wild-catch and post-harvest to join together with scientists, fisheries managers and broader stakeholders to discuss and plan for the future of seafood, showcase best-practice solutions, tech innovations, share knowledge and workshop solutions to tricky, important problems,” Ms Papacosta said.

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