The 5th International Conference on Fisheries and Marine Sciences (INCOFIMS) Surabaya Indonesia, 28 September 2022

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, the third in 2020 and the 4th in 2021.The 5th INCOFIMS was previously scheduled offline in Surabaya on 28th September 2022. 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 5th INCOFIMS in a virtual format with ZOOM on 28 September 2022, and hosted from Faculty of Fisheries and marine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya Indonesia.The theme in the 5th INCOFIMS was “Optimizing the Utilization of Aquatic Resources Through the Blue Economy Program Towards Achieving the SDGs Program”. 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 3 (three) keynote speakers delivering a speech which were Prof. Dr. Orhan Tufan Eroldogan, Prof. Lee Baumgartner and Dr. Ian Hendy. 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:Room 1: Aquaculture technologyRoom 2: Fish Nutrition RoomRoom 3: Fish DiseasesRoom 4: Marine and Aquatic SciencesRoom 5: Estuarine and Coastal EcosystemsRoom 6: Fisheries ManagementRoom 7: Fisheries Socio-economicsIn this session, every speaker had 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Total participants joined in this conference was 200 participants from at least 6 different countries (Australia, Japan, Austria, Malaysia, Taiwan and Indonesia).The conference was in general quite successful, acknowledging the number and enthusiasms of participants during the discussion sessions in both the keynote speaker session and guest speaker’s session. We thank all participants and organizing committee for their support to this conference and see you in the 6th INCOFIMS 2023. Chairman Ayulana Nafisah, Ph.D List of Organizing Committee is available in this pdf.