Aquaculture Asia Magazine, July-September 2007

Editorial

• Research needs to sustain the aquaculture sector.
  Simon Wilkinson

Sustainable aquaculture

• Buffaloes in favour of culture-based fisheries in Sri Lanka.
  Asanka Jayasinghe and Upali Amarasinghe
• Aquafeeds in Myanmar: A Change from farm-made to factory-made feeds.
  Wing-Keong Ng, Myint Soe and Hla Phone

Genetics and biodiversity

• Challenging myths about fish seed quality and potential benefits to the rural poor: Lessons learnt in Asia.
  David C. Little, Benoy K Barman and Corinne Critchlow-Watton

People in aquaculture

• Magur (Clarias batrachus) seed production using low cost hatcheries: A participatory approach in Dakshin Dinajpur District of West Bengal, India.
  Biswajit Goswami
• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: World Vision promotes aquaculture for the poor in Northeast Thailand.
• Cage fish culture and fishery for food security and livelihoods in mid hill lakes of Pokhara Valley, Nepal: Post community based management adoption.
  Suresh Kumar Wagle, Tek Bahadur Gurung, Jay Dev Bista and Ash Kumar Rai

Research and farming techniques

• Water hyacinth - a little known role potential in aquatic ecosystems.
  R. N. Mandal, P. C. Das, and P. K. Mukhopadhyay
• The effects of the application of different concentrations of trichlorfon on the survival and growth of the larvae and fry of Caspian kutum, Rutilus frisii kutum.
  Nasrin Choobkar

Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network Magazine

• Update: Marine finfish research and development at the Research Institute for Mariculture, Gondol, Bali, Indonesia.
  Sih Yang Sim, Ketut Suwirya and Mike Rimmer
• Marine fish hatchery training for aquaculture technicians from the South Pacific Region, in Krabi CFRDC, Thailand.
  Antoine Teitelbaum
• Holding salinity during the breeding season effects final oocyte maturation and egg quality in sand bass (Psammoperca waigiensis).
  Pham Quoc Hung, Nguyen Tuong Anh, Nguyen Dinh Mao
• Rabbitfish Siganus guttatus breeding and larval rearing trial.
  Rachmansyah, Usman, Samuel Lante and Taufik Ahmad

NACA Newsletter

• 18th NACA Governing Council held in Bali, Indonesia.
• Strengthening aquatic animal health capacity and biosecurity in ASEAN - final workshop.
• Aquatic animal pathology master class.
• Vietnamese extension manual on culture-based fisheries.
• New project: Culture-based fisheries development in Lao PDR.
• Guidelines on digital publishing: a practical approach for small organizations with limited resources.
• Workshop on understanding and applying risk analysis in aquaculture.
• GISFish: Remote sensing and mapping for aquaculture and inland fisheries.
• Online encyclopaedia to list 1.8 m known species.
• DELTA 2007.
• NACA/FAO partnership working to establish guidelines for certification of farmed fish.
• Asia-Pacific Aquaculture 2007, 5-8 August 2007, Vietnam.
• Skretting sponsorship & scholarships for the Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network.
• The eleventh regular session on genetic resources for food and agriculture.