reproduction of european eel - towards a selfsustained aquaculture PRO-EEL 5th NEWSLETTER December 2013 The 6th Fish and Shellfish Larviculture Symposium was held September 2nd to 5th 2013 in Ghent, Belgium, organised by the Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Ghent University. The conference addressed larviculture challeng-es, considering a large variety of research fields, including broodstock management, maturation and spawning, larval development and deformities, larval nutrition, larviculture at commercial scale, and microbial management. The PRO-EEL project was represented by a talk entitled “Re-production of European eel and larval culture: State of the art” by the coordinator Jonna Tomkiewicz, who overviewed PRO-EEL research progress with focus on captive offspring production and larvi-culture. In addition, Mathias Bouilliart captured the audience with his intriguing research on func-tional morphology of the feeding apparatus of European eel larvae. Additionally, posters presented PRO-EEL results at the conference. The conference provided good opportunities for discussions on larval rearing technology, including eel! AE2013 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY Attendees at the 6th International Fish & Shellfish Larviculture Symposium - larvi’13 held 2-5 September 2013 in Ghent, Belgium. Photo: Laboratory of Aquaculture & ARC, Ghent University Aquaculture Europe 9-12th August 2013 organised by the European Aqua-culture Society (EAS) was held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The conference featured a dedicated ses-sion on eel research chaired by Jonna Tomkiewicz, DTU, Denmark and Peter De Schryver, Ghent University, Belgium. This session, hosted by PRO-EEL, focused on recent advances in captive breeding of European eel. Eight presentations and three posters covered a broad range of project results such as female fecundity, improvement of broodstock diets and egg quality, optimised fertilisation protocols, microbial interference in egg and larvae culture, rearing techniques, and new insight into the larval mouth structure and feeding capability. This recent progress in breeding technol-ogy development brought attention to eel as a potential “new species” in aquaculture. COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP The 1st PRO-EEL Collaborative Workshop was held 27th of March at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain. Project presenta-tions summarised ongoing research and an open poster session framed the workshop. About 100 motivated attendees including project participants, interested scientist and stakeholders contributed to inspiring discussions of results and future synergetic re-search. The Workshop was organised by Grupo de Acuicultura Y Biodiversidad (GAB), Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Animal, Uni-versitat Politècnica de Valencia (ICTA UPV) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Billund Aquaculture Service, BioMar, GAB Page 2 LARVI2013 GHENT, BELGIUM PRO-EEL team at the 1st PRO-EEL Col-laborative Workshop held in Valencia 27th March 2012 and DTU sponsored the Workshop. PRO-EEL contributors to the AE2013 session: Eel Focus - Aquaculture Development, held in Trondheim, 9-12th Au-gust 2013 EVENTS AND PROJECT ACTIVITIES
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