Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The Executive Committee of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) is pleased to announce that our fourteenth biennial conference will be held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, July 15-18, 2008.
The conference site will be Nha Trang University of Fisheries, located on Vietnam's beautiful central coast. The conference will be organized by Dr. Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, Dean of the Faculty of Fisheries Economics, with the support of the University's Rector, Dr. Vu Van Xung, Prof. Nguyen Viet Thang (Vietnam's Vice Minister of Fisheries), Dr. Ola Flaaten of the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, IIFET President Dr. Cathy Roheim, and many others.
As usual for IIFET's biennial conferences, the conference will have specific themes enabling participation on a wide variety of fisheries management, seafood marketing, aquaculture economics, and fisheries development topics. Taking advantage of the special issues relevant to this conference site, important themes will include the relationships between development, markets, and management. Submitted paper, poster, and special sessions will be organized.
One of IIFET's primary goals is to provide a forum for interaction among those from different professional orientations and disciplines with an interest in fisheries and aquaculture management and economics, and seafood trade (visit http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/IIFET/ for more information). IIFET conferences therefore welcome participation from anyone in academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations with an interest in our conference themes. Presentations range from the applied to the theoretical. While the conference themes are economic in their focus, participation from other disciplines is also encouraged.
Pre-conference professional and tourism opportunities are being planned. We hope that many new participants will take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity to visit this astounding, gorgeous, rapidly changing country with its vibrant and growing fisheries and aquaculture economy.
Conference sponsorship opportunities exist for agencies interested in supporting the interaction of fisheries economists from academia, government, and trade, and also from those which could assist us in supporting participation from developing countries. For more information please contact IIFET Executive Director Ann Shriver.
The first call for abstracts will be issued in approximately July 2007.
IIFET's Executive Committee would like to join the University of Fisheries and its Rector, Dr. Vu Van Xung, in extending our heartfelt welcome to all participants from all over the world. Please plan to join us for IIFET 2008 Vietnam!
If you would like to have your name added to a distribution list for further information about IIFET conferences, please contact Ann.L.Shriver@oregonstate.edu.
Ann Shriver
Executive Director, International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET)
Oregon State University
Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Corvallis, OR 97331-3601 USA
Email: Ann.L.Shriver@oregonstate.edu
IIFET Website: http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/IIFET
Phone: 541 737 1416 Fax: 541 737 2563
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