Aquaculture Asia Magazine, July-September 2010

Editorial

• Bottom of the food chain.
  Simon Wilkinson

Sustainable aquaculture

• Relative efficacies of lobsters (Panulirus ornatus and P. homarus) cultured using pellet feeds and “trash” fish at Binh Ba Bay, Vietnam.
  Hung, L.V., Khuong, D.V., Phuoc, T.V., Thao, M.D.
• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Tilapia in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.
• Marketing of low-valued cultured fish in Bangladesh: An evaluation of value chain.
  Ahmed, N.
• Low-value freshwater fish market in the south central Vietnam, a case study from Khanh Hoa Province.
  Hung, P.Q.

Research and farming techniques

• Current practices of rice field eel Monopterus albus culture in Viet Nam.
  Khanh, N.H., Ngan, H.T.B.

People in aquaculture

• Self help group makes fisherwomen self-reliant: A story of success.
  Vimala, D.D., Ravisankar, T., Kumaran, M., Rengarajan, S. and Krishnan, M.

Genetics and biodiversity

• Small indigenous freshwater fish species of India: Significance, conservation and utilisation.
  Sarkar, U.K. and Lakra, W.S.

NACA Newsletter

• Vietnamese catfish - better management practices update.
• Is this the perfect prawn?
• Fish Oil Replacement and Alternative Lipid Sources in Aquaculture Feeds.
• Multilingual CD-ROM of FAO cultured aquatic species fact sheets.
• Aquaclimate Annual Progress Report 2010.
• Training course on application of business management principles in small-scale aquaculture.