NAAFE 2025 La Jolla will include Special Sessions to which authors may submit their abstracts. See below for a list of Special Sessions and hosts.

  • Special Session: Economics of Marine Debris and Ghost Gear Management (Organizer: Jingting Chang) - Click here for full description
  • Special Session: More than Four Fish: Changing the seafood consumption landscape from niche and small-scale market (Organizer: Hirotsugu Uchida) - Click here for full description

OTHER TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • Climate impacts on fisheries & aquaculture
  • Seafood markets, trade, and climate considerations
  • Equity & environmental justice economics
  • Marine debris including the impact of microplastics
  • Alternative / overlapping ocean & coastal uses: wind energy, renewable energy, aquaculture
  • Marine protected areas, marine spatial planning
  • Ocean observing systems & social-ecological systems
  • Co-production of knowledge & research with Indigenous or local communities, including citizen science
  • Economic & social analysis of fishing and coastal communities
  • Integrating social science in climate and ocean system models
  • Recreational fisheries
  • Ecosystem Based Management
  • Integrating & applying human dimensions data in spatial considerations for marine ecosystem-based management