This handbook outlines the objectives, organisation and history behind the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010. It also contains abstracts of the keynote addresses, plenary lectures, expert panel presentations and posters.

This guide provides short biographies of persons who made presentations at the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, to give participants an idea of the expertise that this conference attempted to bring together. The biographies are arranged sequentially in conformity with the conference programme.

Summary programme brochure for the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, Phuket, Thailand.

The stories presented in Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture reflect the unique nature of Asian aquaculture, providing first-time insight into how and why it has become so successful. Overall, the book demonstrates how the resiliency, adaptability, and innovation of small-scale aquaculture farmers have been crucial to this success. It is unique in demonstrating how aquaculture can have a lasting positive impact on livelihoods, food security, and sustainable development.

In this report, we summarise the outcome of the first MANGROVE Project stakeholder workshop in Nakhon Si Thammarat in the Gulf of Thailand. The objectives of the workshop, held 6 March 2008, were to review and discuss project problem definition from different stakeholder perspectives, to understand how different stakeholders are affected in different ways, and to understand what kind of solutions are presented and by whom? The workshop was attended by community, local government and NGOs.