The sixteen papers in this volume were largely based on the data from a survey of more than 5,000 shrimp and close to 6,000 carp farms in sixteen countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region. This survey was conducted under the ADB/NACA regional study and workshop on aquaculture sustainability and the environment (RETA 5534). The contents of the volume are as follows:

Part I: Shrimp

• Overview of the world shrimp industry.
  Bith-Hong Ling, PingSun Leung and Yung C. Shang.
• Comparing Asian shrimp farming: The domestic resource cost (DRC) approach.
  Bith-Hong Ling, PingSun Leung and Yung C. Shang.
• Comparative economics of shrimp farming in Asia.
  Yung C. Shang, PingSun Leung and Bith-Hong Ling
• Intercountry productivity comparisons of black tiger shrimp culture in Asia.
  PingSun Leung and Lokugam H.P. Gunaratne
• Asian black tiger shrimp industry: A meta-production frontier analysis.
  Lokugam H.P. Gunaratne and PingSun Leung
• Productivity analysis of Malaysian cultured shrimp industry.
  Lokugam H.P. Gunaratne and PingSun Leung
• Export performance of major cultured shrimp producers in the Japanese and US markets.
  Bith-Hong Ling, PingSun Leung and Yung C. Shang
• Behaviour of price transmissions in vertically coordinated markets: The case of frozen black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon).
  Bith-Hong Ling, PingSun Leung and Yung C. Shang
• A logistic regression of risk factors for disease occurrence on Asian shrimp farms.
  PingSun Leung, Liem T. Tran and Arlo W. Fast
• Predicting shrimp disease occurrence: Artificial neural networks vs logistic regression.
  PingSun Leung and Liem T. Tran

Part II: Carp

• Technical efficiency of carp pond culture in South Asia: An application of a stochastic meta-production frontier model.
  Khem R. Sharma and PingSun Leung
• Technical efficiency of carp production in Nepal: An application of stochastic frontier production function approach.
  Khem R. Sharma and PingSun Leung
• Technical efficiency of carp production in Pakistan.
  Khem R. Sharma
• Technical efficiency of carp production in India: A stochastic frontier production function analysis.
  Khem R. Sharma and PingSun Leung
• Technical efficiency of carp pond culture in Peninsula Malaysia: An application of stochastic production frontier and technical inefficiency model.
  Mitsuo Iinuma, Khem R. Sharma and PingSun Leung
• Economic efficiency and optimum stocking densities in fish polyculture: An application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to Chinese fish farms.
  Khem R. Sharma, PingSun Leung, Hailiang Chen and Aaron Peterson