Barry Costa-Pierce edits scientific volume from Elsevier Science on sustainable global aquaculture

In August 2015, Barry Costa-Pierce, Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor of Marine Sciences, chair and director of the Marine Science Center, announced to the more than 300 delegates from 57 countries at the second global Elsevier aquaculture conference, held in Montpellier, France, that the internationally peer reviewed science volumes that resulted from the first Elsevier Science global conference on aquaculture in November of 2013 are complete and are now available. Costa-Pierce served as chair of the International Scientific Organizing Committee in 2013 and served as lead editor for the scientific papers that were borne out of the conference.

The conference, titled “To the Next 40 Years of Sustainable Global Aquaculture,” was held at the oceanfront Palacio de Congresos de Canarias, Las Palmas on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, and celebrated 40 years of outstanding science accomplishments in aquaculture as published in Elsevier’s top journal, Aquaculture, of which Costa-Pierce has been an editor for over 15 years.

The conference call for papers attracted 755 abstracts which resulted in 402 participants from 50 countries who gave 77 oral and 292 poster presentations at the cutting edge of scientific aquaculture on topics such as combining marker assisted selection with classic selection programs, transdisciplinary research needs for the expansion of aquaculture in rural economies, raw materials and feed ingredients needed for the future of aquaculture, interactions of aquaculture and the environment, and the needs of research institutions and research strategies in aquaculture.

Costa-Pierce led a group of co-editors for the scientific papers resulting from the conference, including Brian Austin, director of the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, U.K.; John Benzie, senior scientist at the World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia; Anthony Farrell, University of British Columbia, Canada; Delbert Gatlin, Texas A&M University; Gideon Hulata, Agriculture Research Organization, Israel; and David Little, also of Stirling.

The Special Issues (Parts A and B) on “Research for the Next 40 Years of Sustainable Global Aquaculture Volume 431 (Parts A and B) are available on Science Direct.