Fish Veterinary Society (FVS) 2024 Spring Scientific Meeting

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📣 Save the Date for the Fish Vet Society Annual Conference 2025!
🏢 Norton House Hotel, Newbridge, Edinburgh
📆 March 4 and 5 2025

We're excited to announce that the Fish Vet Society’s annual conference is coming up, and we're now welcoming applications from speakers 👨‍🏫 , including students, to share insights, research, and innovative practices in fish health and welfare.

This year, we’ll be diving into key sessions, keeping the structure from previous years with the emphasis on Fish Welfare :

• One Welfare/Health
• Welfare Monitoring – OWIs & Beyond
• Welfare Monitoring – AI & Forecasting
• Fish Behaviour
• Emergent Issues
• Welfare & Genetics

Fish Veterinary Society (FVS) 2024 Spring Scientific Meeting

March 5, 2024 - March 6, 2024    

Ticket Prices

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Location

The Norton House Hotel
Harvest Road, Edinburgh, EH28 8LX
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Dear member,

The Fish Veterinary Society (FVS) annual spring scientific meeting will be held on the 5th-6th of March 2024, at The Norton House Hotel in Edinburgh.

🐟 Call for Speakers!
We are inviting all knowledgeable individuals and passionate professionals to share their expertise at our Spring Conference. Please submit your abstracts for consideration.

✉️ (‘Secretary FVS ‘ secretary@www.fishvetsociety.org.uk).

🖼️ Calling All Students!
Showcase your research and insights! We invite students to submit their posters and engage with experts in the field.

🤝 Sponsorship Opportunities!
Become a part of our growing network and get unparalleled exposure to the fish veterinary community. Reach out to us for sponsorship opportunities and help make this event even more impactful.

🐠 Not a member of FVS?
It’s the perfect time to join the Fish Vet Society. Engage, learn, and contribute to the growth and welfare of the aquatic veterinary field.

Click here to download and view the programme.

Booking Form

Bookings are closed for this event.

Agenda

09:30 : 10:00

Registration and Coffee

10:00 : 10:15

Welcome to the Conference

Josip Barisic, President FVS

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SESSION 1: PART 1: AQUACULTURE IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

10:15 : 10:30

A standard operating procedure for detecting and reporting harmful algal blooms – an agile, upskilling course for operators and trainers in the finfish sector.

Dr Jillian Couto-Phoenix, Head of Skills and Talent at SAIC

10:30 : 10:45

Health impacts and histolopathology associated with blooms of gelantinous zooplankton in fish farms

Joanna Bailey, Veterinary Pathologist at Patogen

10:45 : 11:00

Experimental models of gill disease caused by zooplankton

Bill Roy, Head of Aquaculture at Moredun Scientific

11:00 : 11:15

Life support interventions in net pen farming

Matt Clarke, TBCProfessional Engineer at Poseidon Ocean Systems

11:15 : 11:45

COFFEE BREAK

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SESSION 2: DIAGNOSTICS