Aquaculture Asia Magazine, April-June 2014

Editorial

• Domestication programmes and disease emergence.
  Simon Wilkinson

Sustainable aquaculture

• Peter Edwards writes on rural aquaculture: Integrated rice/crayfish farming in Hubei Province, China.

Research and farming techniques

• Improvement of seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii culture production by reducing grazing by rabbit fish (Siganus spp.).
  Pham Quoc Hung, Phung The Trung, Svend Jorgen Steenfeldt, Nguyen Quang Huy
• Exploring the fisheries of Wular Lake, Kashmir, India.
  Neha W. Qureshi, Nitesh V. Kadtan and Jitesh V. Keshave
• Golden mahseer, Tor putitora - a possible candidate species for hill aquaculture.
  Neetu Shahi, Sumanta Kumar Mallik and Debajit Sarma

NACA Newsletter

• 25th NACA Governing Council held in Vientiane, Lao PDR.
• Dr Cherdsak Virapat elected as next Director General of NACA.
• 9th Symposium on Diseases in Asian Aquaculture.
• NACA to convene the 11th AFS Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum.
• Free primers for specific detection of bacterial isolates that cause acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease.
• World Aquaculture Adelaide 2014: Special session on regional cooperation for improved biosecurity.
• AHPND detection discussion group established.
• OIE Regional Workshop on Emerging Aquatic Animal Disease Response, in collaboration with NACA, Bali, Indonesia.
• United Kingdom – Southeast Asia Workshop on Sustainable Aquaculture.