Main topics and Special Sessions

COVID-19 Effects
Economics of Aquaculture
Seafood Markets and Trade
Certification of Fisheries and Aquaculture and Consumer Behaviour
Economics of Recreational Fisheries and Tourism
Fishery Governance, Policy and Management
Governance and Management of High Seas and Straddling Stock Fisheries
Rights-based Fishery Management and Co-management
Economic, Bioeconomic and Ecological-Economic Modeling
Ecosystem-based Management and Integrated Assessments
Marine Spatial Planning and Multiple Use Management
Spatial Management and Marine Protected Areas
Managing Small-scale and Developing Country Fisheries
The gender dimension of fisheries and aquaculture
Contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to nutrition, food security and poverty in developing countries
Value chains in fisheries and aquaculture
Open Session: Improving institutions to mitigate externalities across multiple sectors and jurisdictions
Open Session: Gender, entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation
Open Session: A small-scale fisheries academy platform to support implementing the SSF Guidelines
Open Session: Game theory and fisheries
Open Session: Should Economic Considerations be Included in Management Strategy Evaluations?
Open Session: Gendered Value Chains in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Open Session: Use of non-market values in fisheries and marine resource management
Open Session: Building political will for fisheries improvement
Open Session: Adapting Fisheries to Climate Change
Open Session: Evaluating the inputs to governance for the purpose of improving performance outcomes
Open Session: Economics of marine lower trophic species
Open Session: Supporting the transitions of fisheries communities
Open Session: Assessing the sustainability of aquaculture along the value chain: interdisciplinary approaches
Open Session: Managing Transhipment and International TradeOpen Session: Understanding Distributional Issues in Fisheries Management
Open Session: Case Studies in Fisheries Economics and Management
Open Session: Concentration, fishing rights and equity in the fisheries sector
Open Session: Using economics to allocate fishing rights between recreational and commercial fisheries in
complex socioecological systems
Open Session: Markets and market opportunities for small-scale fishery products
Open Session: Management in EU Fisheries
Open Session: Refocusing fisheries governance: from the aggregated to the local level
Open Session: The Economics of Marine Protected Species
Open Session: Increasing the benefits to low income countries from their marine resources
Open Session: Using productivity analysis to assess fishery economic performance
Open Session: Do environmental and fishery drivers influence catch per unit effort for barramundi (Lates calcarifer): Comparing net-free zones and reference sites in Queensland, Australia
Open Session: Offshore wind energy development and fisheries
Open Session: Small-Scale Fishing Communities: Linking Conservation & Livelihoods
Open Session: Investment Behavior and New Technologies in Fisheries
Closed Session: Mediterranean Aquaculture Integrated Development (MedAid). Social and economic implications
Closed Session: Illuminating Hidden Harvests: The Contributions of Small-Scale Fisheries to Sustainable Development
Closed Session: Implementing FAO voluntary guidelines on small scale fisheries s into national fisheries policy for food security and poverty eradication in Sri Lanka
Closed Session: EU fisheries in distant waters: lessons learned from the FarFish project
Mini-workshop: Gender Action Learning System - introduction and learning its use
Mini-workshop: Understanding governance of small-scale fisheries and promoting SSF Guidelines
implementation: participatory learning using web-based training materials and other guidance
Mini-workshop: Methodologies and approaches for developing and using policy and legal guidance documents for small-scale fisheries
Mini-workshop: Transdisciplinary Ways to Engage with Fishing Communities
Mini-workshop: How to identify the beneficial and ultimate owners of fishing vessels