[Staff-bulletins] Inaugural Lecture Invitation - Professor Paul Southgate

[Sam Kent <sam.kent@jcu.edu.au>]

Title: Larval fishes and the Management of the

The role of Aquaculture in a sustainable regional future

 

James Cook University cordially invites you to a public awareness

lecture presented as part of its Professorial Inaugural Lecture Program

 

by

 

Professor Paul Southgate

School of Marine and Tropical Biology

 

Aquaculture is at an exciting stage of development. It is expanding rapidly and will soon exceed capture fisheries as the main sources of aquatic protein for the world’s population. The majority of the world’s fisheries range from being heavily exploited to over-exploited and annual fisheries production has now plateaued at around 90 million tonnes (mt) of which 60 mt is used directly for human consumption. The Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates demand for aquatic protein to increase by at least 40 million mt by 2020 and the increasing gap between demand and supply from fisheries must be met from aquaculture. Unlike fisheries, aquaculture is not limited by the natural productivity of the world’s water masses and it will have an increasingly important role in regional and global food security.

 

Many of us picture large-scale culture of fish or prawns when we think of aquaculture. However, aquaculture need not be large-scale nor target edible commodities to be successful. Culture of pearl oysters, seaweeds and ornamentals, for example, provides improved livelihoods for coastal communities in developing countries. Aquaculture also has a role in marine conservation and has been used to restore depleted fisheries or ecosystems and to provide income to fishing communities impacted by establishment of marine protected areas.

 

This lecture will provide an overview of the role of aquaculture in future regional food security and of my involvement in coastal aquaculture development within the Pacific island region. There will be particular emphasis on my research with pearl oyster culture in the Pacific islands and east Africa.

 

 

 

5.30 pm Thursday, 24 July 2008

 

Ballroom 1

Jupiters Townsville Hotel & Casino, Sir Leslie Thiess Drive

 

Followed by light refreshments

 

Free admission – All Welcome

               

                RSVP: Sam Kent

            Tel:      (07) 4781 4345

            Email:  sam.kent@jcu.edu.au