World Seafood Congress 2026
Dates: Feb 9-11, 2026
Location: Chennai Trade Center, Chennai, India
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The World Seafood Congress (WSC) brings together global seafood trade leaders, policymakers, and experts to explore the latest innovations, sustainability practices, and emerging trends impacting on safe sustainable seafood trade. Organized by the International Association of Fish Inspectors (IAFI)—a globally recognized NGO affiliated with the United Nations—WSC sets new benchmarks for global seafood trade, fostering collaboration, innovation, and progress.
The World Seafood Congress 2026 will provide a platform for in-depth discussions and the latest developments on the future of the global seafood industry, and will help create awareness and promote best practices in fishery and aquaculture sector safety, equity and sustainability in trade”.
The event will also create awareness and promote best practices in inspection methodologies, sustainability, and trade activities relevant to the global seafood industry and the IAFI network. Expected participants include industry, regulators, policymakers, academia, researchers, NGOs, supply chain stakeholders, logistics and trade.
Since its inception, the World Seafood Congress has been hosted by countries renowned for their contributions to the seafood industry, including the USA, Canada, the UK, Iceland, Malaysia, and Portugal. In 2026, for the first time, this distinguished event will be held in India, hosted by PDA Ventures Private Limited, a leading professional trade show and conference organising company based in Bangalore.
