The World Fisheries Congress (WFC) has announced that James L. Anderson, The World Bank’s leader of Global Program on Fisheries and Aquaculture (PROFISH) will speak at the Congress in May 2012.
Prior to joining the Bank in 2010, Mr Anderson chaired of the Department of Environmental & Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island. His previous roles include editorship of the international journal, Marine Resource Economics and he has served on three National Science Foundation/NRC committees related to aquaculture.
He joins the line up of speakers at the Congress which includes: Professor Ray Hilborn, University of Washington, Seattle, US; Mike Mitchell, Technical Director and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Youngs Seafood Company, UK; Professor Katsumi Tsukamoto from the Department of Marine Bioscience, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo; Dr Malcolm Beveridge, Director of Aquaculture and Genetics at the WorldFish Center, Zambia; and Eric C. Schwaab of the US National Marine Fisheries Service.
The WFC, taking place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland, from 7-11 May 2012, addresses the important topic of Sustainable Fisheries in a Changing World, and will examine the science that underpins sustainable fishing; adaptive management and tools to cope with changing environments; the social and economic cost of failure; and meeting increasing food and nutrition needs through cultivation.
Professor Felicity Huntingford, World Council of Fisheries Society President and Professor of Functional Ecology at University of Glasgow, said: “James Anderson’s reputation in international fisheries and aquaculture is considerable. His recent work on the role of seafood in food security, constraints to aquaculture development, and evaluating how aquaculture and rights-based fisheries management are changing the global seafood sector in both developed and developing nations, will provide delegates with a vital insight into this complex area at this year’s World Fisheries Congress.”
