Aquaculture Asia Magazine, April-June 2008

Sustainable aquaculture

• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: From integrated carp polyculture to intensive monoculture in the Pearl River Delta, South China.
• Better management practices for Vietnamese catfish.
  Simon Wilkinson
• Ipomoea aquatica - an aquaculture friendly macrophyte.
  R. N. Mandal, G. S. Saha, P. Kalita, and P.K. Mukhopadhyay
• A status overview of fisheries and aquaculture development in Pakistan with context to other Asian countries.
  A.M. Aslam Jarwar
• The changing face of post-grad education in aquaculture: contributing to soaring production and sustainable practices.
  David C. Little, Andrew P. Shinn and Corinne Critchlow Watton

Genetics and biodiversity

• Hatchery management in Bangladesh.
  Abdus Salam Bhiyan, A.S.M. Musa and M.K. Islam

Research and farming techniques

• Production of Cirrhinus molitorella and Labeo chrysophekadion for culture based fisheries development in Lao PDR Part I: Captive spawning.
  Brett A. Ingram and Oulaytham Lasasimma
• Application of ipil-ipil leaf meal as feed Ingredient for monosex tilapia fry (Oreochronis niloticus) in terms of growth and economics.
  Hosain Zamal, Prabal Barua, Belal Uddin, Khandakar Shafiqul Islam
• Fermented feed ingredients as fish meal replacer in aquafeed production.
  N. Felix and R. Alan Brindo
• Aquaculture and fishing management in coastal zone demarcation: the case of Thailand.
  Phattareeya Suanrattanachai
• Reservoir fisheries of freshwater prawn - success story of an emerging culture-based giant freshwater prawn fishery at Malampuzha Dam in Kerala, India.
  M.N. Kutty, C. Mohanakumaran Nair and K. R. Salin

Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Network Magazine

• Determining and locating sea cage production area for sustainable tropical aquaculture.
  Halmar Halide, Richard Brinkman and David McKinnon
• SPC Pacific-Asia marine fish mariculture technical workshop: Farming Marine Fishes for our Future.
  Nur Muflich Juniyanto, Syamsul Akbar and Zakimin
• Developing Better Management Practices for Marine Finfish Aquaculture.
  Antoine Teitelbaum & Ben Ponia
• Breeding and seed production of silver pompano (Trachinotus blochii) at the Mariculture Development Center of Batam.
  Nur Muflich Juniyanto, Syamsul Akbar and Zakimin
• Potential of silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus) as a new candidate species for aquaculture.
  Charles M. James and Sulaiman M. Almatar

NACA Newsletter

• 19th Governing Council meeting held in Kathmandu, Nepal.
• OIE/NACA Regional Workshop on Aquatic Animal Health.
• Vietnam catfish BMP project kicks off.
• Planning meeting, Regional Project on Reservoir Fisheries Development and Management.
• NACA to document aquaculture success stories.
• 6th Regional Grouper Hatchery Training Course.
• Establishing a Working Party on Aquaculture Statistics.
• Implementing the ASEAN Roadmap for Integration of the Fisheries Sector.
• London Expert Workshop on Aquaculture Certification.