Aquaculture Asia Magazine, April-June 2006

Editorial

• Mariculture: The new hot topic
  Simon Wilkinson

Aquatic animal health

• Selection of high-health postlarvae: A prerequisite for sustainability of the Indian shrimp industry.
  S. Saurabh, V. Kumar, S. Karanth and G. Venkateshwarlu
• Nucleotides - novel immunostimulants in aquaculture feed.
  P. Kalaimani Arasi, N. Felix

Genetics and biodiversity

• Brood stock and all female scampi grow out ponds in South India.
  P. Balamurugan, C. Balasundaram, P. Mariappan and S. Dharaneedharan
• Genetically modified fish and its potential applications.
  M. Karthik, D.B. Akolkar, V. Kumar, and S.D. Singh

Research and farming techniques

• Rainbow trout farming in hill terrace of Nuwakot, Nepal.
  Tek Bahadur Gurung, Sadhu Ram Basnet and Krishna Prasad Lamsal
• Sugar industry by-products as plankton boosters and yield enhancers in carp culture systems.
  S. Felix, T. Francis, K. Mohan Naidu, C. Senthil and P. Herald Robins
• A note on the growth and production of Penaeus monodon in low saline culture systems of Kerala.
  G. Prasad

People in aquaculture

• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Poor households raise prawns for export.

Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network

• Marine fish marketing systems in coastal Bangladesh: Potential for development.
  Nesar Ahmed and Helen T. Sturrock