Editorial

• Big issues for small players
  Simon Wilkinson

Sustainable aquaculture

• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Cage culture of tilapia in Lake Taal, Philippines.
• Development and adoption of BMPs by self-help farmer groups.
  Umesh N.R.
• Lotus - an aquatic plant of versatile qualities.
  R.N. Mandal, G.S. Saha and P.K. Mukhopadhay
• Integrated aquaculture-agriculture systems in Bangladesh: Potential for sustainable livelihoods and nutritional security of the rural poor.
  Nesar Ahmed, Md Abdul Wahab and Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network Magazine

• Development of a spreadsheet model of the market chain for the live reef food fish trade.
  Geoffrey Muldoon and Bill Johnston
• Report of the 4th Regional Grouper Hatchery Production Training Course 2006.
  Sih Yang Sim
• 5th Regional Grouper Hatchery Training Course 2007.

Aquatic animal health

• Immunological and nucleic acid based methods for detection of food borne pathogens.
  P.R. Sahoo and S. Tanuja
• Quantitative evaluation of APP for the standardization of stress in naturally and artificially EUS infected Channa gachua.
  Alok Tripathi and T.A.Qureshi

Research and farming techniques

• Replacing marine fish oil in aquafeeds with tropical palm oil products.
  Wing-Keong Ng

NACA Newsletter

• Iranian officers train in advanced marine shrimp farming and meet Iraqi delegation at NACA.
• Green ward recognises NACA work on sustainable shrimp farming.
• International Principles for Responsible Shrimp Farming now available in Spanish.
• Building capacity on aquatic animal epidemiology in I.R. Iran.
• NACA Fisheries Team meets with new Governor of Aceh.
• Aquaculture Certification: Programme to implement the COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture recommendation.
• Recent Developments in the Aquaculture Feed Industry.
• Global Advances in the Ecology and Management of Golden Apple Snails.
• NACA mission to Myanmar.
• Workshop on Insurance in Aquaculture to be held in Bali, May 2007.
• Catfish 2007 Vietnam.
• Tilapia 2007 Kuala Lumpur.