World Fishing & Aquaculture magazine reports live from OMC 2016, providing up-to-the-minute multimedia coverage of all the presentations and debates from Barcelona, Spain on 6-7 April.

This blog will provide readers with access to highlights of the presentations at this years' Offshore Mariculture Conference, which include insights into cutting-edge technological advances and discussion of the latest challenges facing fish farmers and producers.

Whether you are at the conference or reading at home, we want you to be involved. Find us on Twitter using handle @OM_Conference and tag us in your tweets, or use #MaricultureConference. We welcome your comments and photos, and if you have a question for any of our speakers, the World Fishing & Aquaculture Editor, Carly Wills, will do her best to get them answered, posting the response here on the blog.

We hope you enjoy our live coverage of the Offshore Mariculture Conference 2016.