Latin American & Caribbean Aquaculture 2019 - LACQUA19 to be held
within the framework of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the
Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society
in San José, Costa Rica at the Convention Center of the Wyndham
Herradura Hotel.

A celebration party is being prepared for this celebration and the
participation of two special guests is confirmed for the opening plenary
of LACQUA19.
Dr. Enric Gisbert Casas, PhD, is a specialist in fish nutrition and
physiology, responsible for the Aquaculture Program of the Agrifood
Research and Technology Institute (IRTA) in Spain. He has published
numerous scientific articles and has collaborated in research
projects in Europe, America and Asia. He is coordinator
of the Cyted LARVA plus Network (Strategies for development and
improvement of fish larvae production in Ibero-America), made up of
researchers from 19 universities and research centers, plus 9
companies, belonging to Ibero-American countries, including three
countries of Central America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Luís E C Conceição is an expert in fish nutrition and metabolism, has
published a large number of scientific articles and collaborates in a
large number of projects, including projects in Latin America. He has a
master's and doctorate in aquaculture from the University of
Wageningen in the Netherlands. For several years he has been head of
research and development at SPAROS, a spin-off company of the
Center for Marine Sciences of the University of Algarve, Portugal, which
is dedicated to innovation for the development of new products,
technologies and processes for the feeding of fish. Coordinator of
several national projects and the EC-FP6 SEACASE project. Vice
President of COST Action Larvanet.

It is our pleasure to announce that together with the LACQUA19 we will
carry out the Theoretical - Practical Course on Pathologies in Shrimp
Cultivation from November 18 to 19 at the National University Omar
Dengo Heredia campus. The topics to be discussed will be diseases in
farmed shrimp, diagnostic techniques, clinical signs of disease, practice
in sampling and biosecurity strategies.

The course will be dictated by Dr. Luis Fernando Aranguren Caro with
M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, has more than 20 years
of professional experience working in aquaculture health in shrimp and
marine fish, focused on three areas: diagnosis, health management and
biosecurity.