Aquaculture Asia Magazine, January-March 2009

Editorial

• The food and energy crisis: A taste of things to come.
  Simon Wilkinson

Sustainable aquaculture

• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Myanmar revisited.
• Harvesting, traditional preservation and marketing of fishes of Chalan Beel, Bangladesh.
  Galib, S.M. and Samad, M.A.
• Role of community in production and supply of larger, quality fingerlings .
  Radheyshyam, De, H.K. and Saha, G.S.
• Can rice-fish farming provide food security in Bangladesh?
  Ahmed, N. and Luong-Van, J.
• Nutritional and food security for rural poor through multi-commodity production from a lake of eastern Uttar Pradesh.
  Singh, S.K.

Research and farming techniques

• Emerging boost in Sri Lankan reservoir fish production: a case of adoption of past research findings.
  Amarasinghe, U.S., Weerakoon, D.E.M., Athukorala, D.A.
• Farming the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium malcolmsonii.
  Radheyshyam
• Breeding and seed production of butter catfish, Ompok pabda (Siluridae) at Kalyani Centre of CIFA, India.
  Chakrabarti, P.P., Chakrabarty, N.M. and Mondal, S.C.

Asia-Pacific Marine Finfish Aquaculture Magazine

• Use of fish in animal feeds: a fresh perspective.
• Aquatic animal health.
• National strategies for aquatic animal health management.
  Mohan, C.V.

NACA Newsletter

• 9th Technical Advisory Committee meeting and 30th anniversary of FFRC.
• Training Workshop on the Use of Molecular Genetics in Conservation held at USM, Malaysia.
• Japan International Award for NACA Staff.
• Consortium ion freshwater finfish genetics and breeding.
• Shrimp Farming eNews.
• Seventh Meeting of the Asia Regional Advisory Group on Aquatic Animal Health.
• Sri Lankans learn pisciculture at CIFA.
• India's Central Institute for Freshwater Aquaculture observes 33rd Foundation Day.