Agenda

Role of seafood trade in nutrition and livelihoods
1. Social impacts of small-scale fisheries (livelihoods and gender)
2. Certification challenges and access to international markets for small scale operators
3. Technical performance of traditional processing technologies

Challenges in seafood regulation, inspection and control
1. Regulatory trends and impacts on aquatic product trade and development
2. Challenges in organisation and management of sanitary competent authorities for market access
3. Dual standards - regulatory differences between export & domestic markets
4. Innovation in food safety and inspection methods
5. Remote audits, monitoring and inspection of seafood; role of AI and digitisation
6. Traceability tools for improving safety in the supply chain
7. Importer and retailer perspectives on supply chain integrity

Science, processing technology and utilisation of aquatic products
1. Innovation in Seafood Processing, packaging & distribution technology
2. Optimising the economic utilisation of products from the aquatic environment
3. Plant based seafood analogues and labelling challenges
4. Challenges in the circular economy for fishery and aquaculture products

Ethical dimension of seafood trade
1. Measuring ethical content of seafood
2. The demand for ethical products
3. Sentience and welfare concerns in aquaculture and capture fisheries
4. Stunning and slaughter methods and engineering solutions

Seaweeds and macro/microalgae – blue food of the future
1. Novel products and applications for seaweeds and macro/microalgae
2. Emerging technologies used in the production and processing of seaweeds and macro/microalgae
3. Emerging uses of seaweeds and macro/microalgae for human and animal nutrition
4. Food safety risks in the consumption of seaweed and macro/microalgae
5. Environmental and social impacts of seaweeds and macro/microalgae production

Solutions to forced labour
1. Typology and measurement of human rights violations in fisheries and aquaculture
2. Human rights legislation, monitoring and enforcement in fisheries and aquaculture
3. Approaches to better work and welfare improvement in the seafood business
4. Port-focused and at-sea solutions for monitoring labour conditions
5. Trafficking of labour in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors

Health hazards, safety and nutrition of seafood
1. Balancing health costs and benefits of consumption
2. Health risk assessment and risk management decision making in seafood safety
3. Assessing risks and appropriate levels of protection
4. Optimising nutritional benefits of fish and mollusc consumption for target populations
5. Emerging, newly- and non-regulated food safety hazards (PFAs, mineral oil hydrocarbons)

Corporate social responsibility in seafood supply
1. Society and development – understanding the links to seafood trade
2. Trade impact potential of CSR legislation
3. Organisational responses in implementing CSR in seafood operations; the Indian model
4. Measuring CSR performance in the supply chain
5. Audit procedures and impact assessment methodology for CSR interventions
6. Retailer perspectives - ethical labelling and consumer information

Assessing seafood safety and quality
1. Detecting and preventing fish fraud
2. Advances in laboratory methods for seafood testing
3. Analytical tools in seafood traceability
4. Indicators for seafood safety in the supply chain

Carbon neutrality and the seafood sector
1. Marine ingredients and the intersection of fisheries and aquaculture
2. Energy accounting methods and carbon footprints in aquatic product supply chains
3. Advances in energy efficiency (refrigeration technology and role of solar power)

Markets for Sustainability Certification and Sectoral Responses
1. Safety and sustainability in certification systems - benchmarking and validation
2. Market-led fisheries and aquaculture improvement programmes
3. Role of certification bodies in enhancing social and environmental justice

Markets and distribution trends in the shrimp and crustacean trade
1. Impacts of tariffs and non-tariff barriers on trade patterns and socioeconomics of global shrimp sector
2. Yields, quality and value addition; advances in processing technologies
3. Anti-microbial resistance and managing the veterinary residue issues
4. Impacts of aquaculture biosecurity measures (disease fee certification) on trade
5. Links between forced labour and product safety in the supply chain