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We, the editors of Aquaculture in the Third Millennium, the Technical Proceedings of the Conference on Aquaculture in the Third Millennium, would like to acknowledge the tremendous undertaking - and satisfaction - that this responsibility entailed for both the authors and us. Concept to compilation took a mere two years, but this final product embodies years of experience and a vast range of expertise on the part of all contributors. An Advance Copy was produced for limited pre-publication circulation at the 24th Session of the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI) meeting in Rome, from 26 February to 02 March 2001. Following one more proof and style review, this final document was published in June 2001. The Editorial Team was faced with the task of compiling information and manuscripts submitted by the authors, in many cases comprising writing teams whose members are working in various parts of the world. Editorial style was based on standard FAO editorial guidelines, however, Keynote Addresses and some Plenary Lectures are published as submitted, due to the narrative presentation of the talks given at the Conference. The Thematic Reviews were edited for language, style and technical consistency. The Regional Reviews and the Global Synthesis were subjected to the same editorial review, in addition to standardising production data and statistical presentations. Tables, figures and graphs were also standardized for better visual quality and ease of comparison. Production figures and analytical methods were based on FAO FishStat Plus Version 2.3 (2000)1. The editors were assisted in this task by many staff at FAO Fisheries Department and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA). Significant acknowledgement is due to: Uwe Barg, Devin Bartley, Matthias Halwart, Jiansan Jia, Manuel Martinez, John Moehl, Melba Reantaso and Zhou Xiaowei. Felix Marttin of FAO Fisheries Department helped with producing standardized graphs, tables, and figures. Juancarlos Trabucco helped in page formatting. The cover page was designed by Delfin Laforteza and the credit for final page formatting, layout design and desktop publishing goes to Sylviane Borghesi of the Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service (FAO/FIRI).
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Every effort was made to protect the sense and opinions expressed by the author(s), and editorial changes and questions were made in consultation with them. Every manuscript has been proofed by its authors or at least by the senior author. We thank everyone for their prompt and gracious responses to the numerous, repeated and often insistent requests for more information or clarification. Despite the close and repeated scrutiny described above, however, errors may still emerge for which we, the editors, take full responsibility and apologize in advance. The EditorsRohana P. Subasinghe Pedro B. Bueno Michael J. Phillips Courtney Hough Sharon E. McGladdery J. Richard Arthur |
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