“Challenging Assumptions in a Changing World” is the topic for the Seafood Summit 2010 this year. It is going to be held in Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center bringing together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservation community for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking with the goal of making the seafood marketplace environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.
Among others the keynote speaker is Dr Daniel Pauly, who did his first intercontinental travel in 1971 (from Germany to Ghana for field work for his Masters) and has since had the privilege of experiencing a multitude of countries, cultures, and modes of exploiting aquatic ecosystems in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. This perspective allowed him to develop tools for managing data-sparse fisheries, as prevailed for example in the Philippines, where Dr. Pauly worked through the 1980s.
According to the attendees of the 2009 Summit in San Diego, it is the best place to discuss disagreements and the industry become increasingly engaged year by year. Nigel Edwards, Technical Director, Seachill, said that he got a lot out of the Summit…sessions were informative and well presented with very few exceptions. The whole purpose of the summit is to find common ground and he think it does that very well. There will always be disagreement in the detail and pace but the broad objectives and priorities are in common and some of the innovative solutions are great.
