Aquaculture Asia, Vol.13, No.4, pp.1-51, October-December 2008 Item Type monograph Publisher Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific Download date 24/09/2021 19:37:04 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/19868 ISSN 0859-600X Volume XIII No. 4 October-December 2008 Wastewater-fed aquaculture in India Mariculture in Sulawesi Culture-based fisheries, Laos Abandoned shrimp farm revival Catfish hatchery management, Vietnam Nodavirus: Emerging threat A healthy underwater world A clear vision from Intervet Aquatic Animal Health For more information please email
[email protected] http://aqua.intervet.com and www.spaquaculture.com Aquaculture Asia Volume XIII No. 4 ISSN 0859-600X is an autonomous publication October-December 2008 that gives people in developing countries a voice. The views and opinions expressed herein are A matter of process those of the contributors and do not represent the policies or In the April issue I wrote a bit about the development and proliferation of competing position of NACA. standards for catfi sh aquaculture. There are a few problems with these and standards that have been developed for other aquaculture commodities to date. I remain convinced that most of the current crop will never see any signifi cant Editorial Board adoption in the fi eld, for the simple reasons that they are impractical and do not Wing-Keong Ng deliver much in the way of benefi t to farmers. The root cause of this would appear M.C. Nandeesha to be something of a cultural clash between those developing the standards, and those who are supposed to implement them: Editor • The vast majority of Asian aquaculture is small scale and farmers are relatively Simon Wilkinson poor.