Editorial

• A new member of NACA: Welcome Indonesia
  Simon Wilkinson

Sustainable aquaculture

• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Small-scale pond culture in Bangladesh.

People in aquaculture

• Community based aquaculture - issues and challenges.
  H.K. De and G.S. Saha
• Aquaculture as an action programme: An exercise in building confidence and self-worth.
  B. Shanthi, V.S. Chandrasekaran, M. Kailasam, M. Muralidar, T. Ravisankar, C. Saradad and M. Krishnan
• The STREAM Column: Transforming policy recommendations into pro-poor service provision.
  Graham Haylor

Research and farming techniques

• Grow out of juvenile spotted Babylon to marketable sizes in earthen ponds II: Polyculture with seabass.
  S. Kritsanapuntu, N. Chaitanawisuti, W. Santhaweesuk and Y. Natsukari

Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network

• Influence of economic conditions of importing nations and unforeseen global events on grouper markets.
  Sih Yang Sim
• Present status of hatchery technology for cobia in Vietnam.
  Nhu Van Can
• Report on grouper hatchery training course in Indonesia.
  Nguyen Quoc Thai

Aquatic animal health

• Biosecured and improved penaeid shrimp production through organic nursery raceway system in India.
  S. Felix and M. Samaya Kannan
• Management of monogenean parasites in brackishwater finfish.
  K.P. Jithendran, M. Natarajan and I.S. Azad
• Vembanad Lake: A potential spawner bank of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii on the southwest coast of India.
  Paramaraj Balamurugan, Pitchaimuthu Mariappan and Chellam Balasundaram