WorldFish was announced as the host of the 2024 International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) conference at the closing of the 2022 IIFET conference held in Vigo, Spain. The 21st edition of the biennial conference will be held in Penang, a state located in the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia, where WorldFish is based since relocating its headquarters in 2000. The 2024 conference will be held in Asia for the first time since Nha Trang, Vietnam in 2008.
