Volume 5, Number 5 September/October 2009 MICA (P) 074/10/2008 ISBN 1793-0561

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From the editor

• News
  Contract farming strategy in Thailand, UPAB in Vietnam and typhoon damage in Taiwan
• News in brief

Shrimp Culture

• Market options for surplus shrimp
  Volumes need to be channelled away from local wet markets to increase prices. By Zuridah Merican

Cage Culture

• Improving tiger grouper culture with extruded feed
  Acceptable fish growth and feed economics are seen at Borneo Marine Farms, say Arjen Roem and Sih-Yang Sim
• Fighting fluke ectoparasites in Asian marine fish
  Management strategies and novel nutritional solutions can help in the fight against flukes. By Serge Corneillie, T. Masumoto and Hiroshi Nakayama

Feed Technology

• A feed is only as good as its ingredients -Part III
  Brett Glencross concludes this ingredient evaluation series with complementary accessory and novel technologies in ingredient assessment.
• Stimulating immunity in fish and crustaceans: some light but more shadows
  The options to impart immunity in aquatic species remain elusive. By Klaus Hoffmann
• Krill meal and oil in shrimp feeds
  Improves economics and growth performance of vannamei shrimp.

Industry Review - Tilapia

• Mono sex tilapia fry production
  Strains with better disease resistance for all culture situations
• Tilapia-riding the recession
  Continuing growth and the diversity of products especially value added products are helping in difficult times. By Eric Roderick

Developments

• Cost effective pangasius culture in Lampung
  Fauzan Bahri, Mohammad Nadjib, Mika Prasetia and Olivier Decamp discuss some health measures during larviculture and grow-out of the catfish

Marketing

• Vietfish 2009 - A resilience to pessimism in the global economy
• Marketing Malaysian aquatic products