Preface

The 3 rd International Conference on Fisheries and Marine Sciences (INCOFIMS) Surabaya Indonesia, 10 September 2020 International conference on fisheries and marine sciences (INCOFIMS) is an annual conference organized by Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia. The main aim is to provide a sharing platform that enables researchers, academics and practitioners from all over the world to share their most recent findings as well as to propose the best strategies to address issues and challenges which we have been currently facing in aquaculture and fisheries practices worldwide. The 1 st INCOFIMS was held successfully offline in Surabaya in 2018, followed by the second in 2019. The 3 rd INCOFIMS was previously scheduled offline in Surabaya on 10 th September 2020. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and travel restriction for foreigners come into Indonesia as well as traveling within the Indonesian islands, we had the 3 rd INCOFIMS in a virtual format with ZOOM on 10 September 2020, and hosted from Faculty of Fisheries and marine, Univestias Airlangga, Surabaya Indonesia. We were unable to postpone the event because INCOFIMS is our annual event and also most of the participants requested to have the conference in the virtual format (online) The theme in the 3 rd INCOFIMS was “challenges and strategies for the development of sustainable aquaculture and fisheries”. Technically, we had the conference divided into 2 (two) sessions in general: (1) keynote speaker session and (2) guest speaker session. In the keynote session, we had 3 (three) keynote speakers delivering a speech which were Prof. Andrew Greig Jeffs from Newzealand, Prof. Mustafa Kamal from Malaysia, and Dr Gunanti Mahasri from Universitas Airlangga. Each keynote speaker had 1.5 hours for giving a presentation using ZOOM and 30 minutes for discussion in one virtual room. After the keynote speaker session, we proceeded to the guest speaker session in which all participants were divided into 7 (seven) rooms according to our subtopics for oral and poster presentations: Room 1: Aquaculture technology Room 2: Fish Nutrition Room 3: Fish Diseases Room 4: Fisheries Management Room 5: Marine sciences, Room 6: Aquatic Resource management, and Room 7: Fisheries socioeconomics In this session, every speaker had 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Total participants joined in this conference was 225 participants from at least 6 different countries (Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Malaysia, Taiwan and Indonesia). The conference was in general quite successful, acknowledging the number and enthusiasms of participants during the discussion sessions in both the keynote speaker session and guest speaker’s session. We thank all participants and organizing committee for their support to this conference and see you in the 4 th INCOFIMS 2021. List of Organizing Committee available in this pdf.