FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TILAPIA IN AQUACULTURE

RIO de JANEIRO, BRAZIL

SPONSORED BY:

The American Tilapia Association

HOSTED BY:

Panorama da AQUICULTURA

We invite you to participate in the ISTA V to be held September 3-5, 2000

at the Sofitel Rio Palace, at Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

This will be the fifth of the highly successful series of symposia that have brought together tilapia biologists to review the latest discoveries in tilapia biology, ecology, improvements in production systems and other fields related to tilapia and their use in aquaculture. This will be the first of the symposia to be held in South America after earlier meetings in Israel, Thailand, Cote D’Ivoire and the U.S. This symposium will have a special emphasis on the rapid advances in large-scale commercial farming and the development of international markets. This symposium will include a trade show, which will provide a forum for industry suppliers, seafood marketers and the aquaculture press to meet directly with researchers and producers. Field trips are being organized to nearby aquaculture sites.

To facilitate further planning of the symposium, the organizing committee requests interested participants to complete the attached form and mail, fax or e-mail to:

Kevin Fitzsimmons

ISTA V University of Arizona

2601 E. Airport Drive

Tucson AZ 85706

Fax: 520-573-0852 http://ag.arizona.edu/azaqua/ata.html E-MAIL: KevFitz@ag.arizona.edu

A future mailing will include the provisional program, guidelines for preparation of papers, and hotel reservation forms. The early, regular and late registration fee will be US $300, 350 and 450 respectively. This fee will cover all symposium expenses including banquet, reception, program sessions, admission to trade show and conference proceedings. Tours and pathology workshop may require addition fees. The conference Web site is http://ag.arizona.edu/azaqua/ista/ista5.htm

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The Symposium Proceedings will be prepared before the meeting and distributed to the Participants in Rio. Papers will be accepted for review by the proceedings editors when paper and electronic copies of the article have been received. The editors may request revisions of the papers. It is anticipated that each of the papers submitted will be scheduled for an oral presentation. There will also be facilities for poster presentations and oral presentations of work not included in the Proceedings.

______ I plan to submit a paper for inclusion in the Proceedings, with oral presentation.

______ I plan to submit a paper for inclusion in the Proceedings, without oral presentation.

______ I plan to present a poster at the Symposium.