The 4th International Conference on Fisheries and Marine Sciences (INCOFIMS) Surabaya Indonesia, 29 September 2021

Abstract

International conference on fisheries and marine sciences (INCOFIMS) is an annual conference organized by Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia. The main aim is to provide a sharing platform that enables researchers, academics and practitioners from all over the world to share their most recent findings as well as to propose the best strategies to address issues and challenges which we have been currently facing in aquaculture and fisheries practices worldwide. The 1st INCOFIMS was held successfully offline in Surabaya in 2018, the second in 2019 and the third in 2020.The 4th INCOFIMS was previously scheduled offline in Surabaya on 29th September 2021. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and travel restriction for foreigners come into Indonesia as well as traveling within the Indonesian islands, we had the 4th INCOFIMS in a virtual format with ZOOM on 29 September 2021, and hosted from Faculty of Fisheries and marine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya Indonesia. We were unable to postpone the event because INCOFIMS is our annual event and also most of the participants requested to have the conference in the virtual format (online)The theme in the 4th INCOFIMS was “Interprofessional collaboration for enhancing the aquatic ecosystem sectors”. Technically, we had the conference divided into 2 (two) sessions in general: (1) keynote speaker session and (2) guest speaker session. In the keynote session, we had 4 (four) keynote speakers delivering a speech which were Prof Felipe Polivanov Ottoni, Ph.D.; Asst. Prof. Dr. Narongrit Muangmai and Dr. TB. Haeru Rahayu, A.Pi., M.Sc. Each keynote speaker had 1.5 hours for giving a presentation using ZOOM and 30 minutes for discussion in one virtual room. After the keynote speaker session, we proceeded to the guest speaker session in which all participants were divided into 7 (seven) rooms according to our subtopics for oral and poster presentations.