Proceedings of The 1st “International Conference On Applied Marine Science and Fisheries Technology (MSFT) 2015

From August 18-21, 2015 Tual State Fisheries Polytechnic was pleased to host The First biannual “International Conference On Applied Marine Science and Fisheries Technology (MSFT) 2015” with main theme “Enforcing Sustainable Development of Marine Resources of Small Island”. MSFT 2015 was held in Langgur, Kei Islands, Southeast Maluku Regency, Indonesia. The Organizing Committee was pleased to note that the event gained significant interest, With over 40 National and International speakers from, Australia, United States of America, Sweden, Denmark, Malaysia, German and France and Indonesia from 22 institutions around te world as well as 31 oral presenters 18 poster presentations during 4 panel sessions. The conference hosted six keynote presentations. Dr. Zainal Arifin (Indoneisia) “Potential of Marine Pollution from Oil and Gas Industries in Eastern Indonesia and Its Prevention Efforts”, Prof. Les Christidis (Australia) presented “Incorporating diversity in aquaculture approaches as a way of future proofing the sustainable development of marine resources of small islands”, Prof. Laszlo Szekely, MD, PhD (Sweden) presented “Do we need thousand new anti-cancer drugs and can we find them in the sea?”, Assoc.Prof. Fil.Dr Tomas Cedhagen (Denmark) presented “Environmental Monitoring Through next-generation sequence Metabarcoding: Assessing The Impact of Fish Farming on bentchic macro and meiofauna communities”, Prof. Hans Glise, MD, PhD (Sweden) presented “Monetizing Marine Biodiversity for Economic Development in a Sustainable way” and Dr. Andreas Kunzmann (Germany) presented “Improving Seaweed Farmers Livelihoods Through Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture (IMTA) and High Quality Seaweed Processing” We wish to express our gratutide to sponsors that generously assisted the work of MSFT 2015, Bank Mandiri, Bank Modern and Bank BRI. The organizing committee was delighted with the success of the conference, and wishes to note that the conference would not have occurred without the efforts of the many members of the committee, who gave generously of their time. Finally, editors have worked hard to review and edited all papers of MSFT Proceeding and we apologize if there are still any shortcoming and it will be our valuable evaluation for better work in coming years. We thank all authors and participants for their contributions.