Conference

The 2025 Pacific Rim Shellfish Sanitation Association Conference will be held in person on April 8-9, 2025, at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska.

The 25th International Seaweed Symposium (ISS) will be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, May 4 - 9, 2025. Visit the ISS website for more information.

The symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Alaska Southeast, which is located on Auke Lake about 4 miles from the Juneau International Airport and 12 miles from downtown Juneau.

The 2025 Phycological Society of America Annual Meeting will be held July 29–August 2, 2025 at the Inter American University Puerto Rico Barranquitas and Metro Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

We’re excited to welcome you to the conference and look forward to seeing you there! Take advantage of early bird pricing and special hotel block rates—available through August 8th.

In partnership, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and the Kurt Grinnell Aquaculture Scholarship Foundation we will hold another Indigenous Aquaculture Summit (“IAS” or” Summit”) on September 15-18, 2025, at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe’s 7 Cedars Resort and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribes Administrative Center and Plaza in Blyn, Washington.

Each year, thousands of commercial mariners from across the West Coast and Alaska gather in Seattle in search of the latest tech, gear, and education.

AQUACULTURE AMERICA 2026 returns to one of the favorite entertainment spots in the world for the only major national aquaculture conference and exposition held in the U.S. The U.S. Aquaculture Society joins with National Aquaculture Association and the Aquaculture Suppliers Association to produce the annual Aquaculture America meetings.

Join mariculture growers, researchers, coastal community leaders, and industry partners from across the state and beyond for three days of collaboration, innovation, and visioning for Alaska’s mariculture future.

Founded in 1908, The National Shellfisheries Association is an international organization of scientists, management officials and members of industry, all concerned with the biology, ecology, production, economics and management of shellfish resources - clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, snails, shrimp, lobsters, crabs, among many other species of importance.