Oldways Conference to Seek Balanced Solutions for Fish Farming
he Water
Farming-World's Future Conference, the first public event of the Water Farming
Initiative (WFI), will be held 12 to 14 February 2002 at the Renaissance Harborplace
Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, by the Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust.
“The idea of presenting reality in a scientific context is important, “ said Cliff Goudey, Director of the Center for Fisheries Engineering Research at MIT Sea Grant and co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Conference. “Most of the information about aquaculture in the media seems to come from vocal opponents, and industry's responses to these challenges often doesn't get taken seriously. The Oldways approach has great potential as they don't have a clear stake on either side, and they have a track record in making progress in controversial areas.”
This science-based, solutions-driven conference will feature experts from science, academic, government, and industry who will present information on a variety of aquaculture issues. Moderated discussion and question/answer sessions will be held to identify obstacles and areas of agreement on baseline data for water farming.
“It’s time to focus on solutions,” said Dun Gifford, President of Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, a Boston-based, nonprofit educational organization. “It is more and more clear that ‘clean water farming’ is a sound environmental partner for soil farming. With this conference we hope to bridge differences by encouraging calm negotiation and discouraging divisive argument.”
For more information or to register for the conference, please visit the Oldways
Preservation website located at <www.oldwayspt.org>.
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