Volume 13, Number 5 September/October 2017 MCI (P) 011/10/2017 ISBN 1793 -056

From the editor

• Asian Financial Crisis and Finfish Aquaculture

News

• State of the finfish aquaculture industry in Asia

Shrimp Culture

• In India, are we farming shrimp the right way?
  Manoj M Sharma questions if farming practices are keeping up with intensification, from pond carrying capacity to waste discharge?
• Freshwater Prawn Culture
  A young aquaculture entrepreneur in the making
  Giva Kuppasamy is changing the industry in Malaysia with production of all-male giant freshwater prawn post larvae. By Zuridah Merican

Finfish Aquaculture

• TARS 2017: Finfish Aquaculture - Strategies for Growth
• Hard Talk with Finfish Farmers
  Three farmers openly share their business experiences and identify the weakest links in their supply chain.

Finfish Aquaculture - Part 1: Industry challenges

• Growing Indonesia’s finfish industry
• Challenges in China’s finfish farming
• A challenging marine finfish farming business in Malaysia
• Strategies with competition in the Mediterranean
• Moving up the whitefish ladder

Feed Technology

• Measuring performance in formulation
  David Serene describes a tool to measure feed performance and evaluate formulation process improvement.
• Proactive feeding for shrimp broodstock and larvae
  Functional ingredients enhance shrimp immunity with better survival rates, say Aedrian Ortiz Johnson and Eamonn O’Brien
• Mycotoxin detoxification: Science vs Marketing
  The challenge for a mycotoxin detoxifying agent is to reduce the intestinal absorption of mycotoxins. By Maarten Jay van Schoonhoven and Marie Gallissot
• Optimising productivity of copepod cultures as live feed
  Live phytoplankton, enhanced with probiotics, substantially increased density per biomass. By Aurore Trottet, Rémi Maguet, Mathilde Richer de Forges and Guillaume Drillet
• Disease Management
  Farming the barramundi alongside pathogens
  Alain Michel recounts learning the hard way at an integrated farm in Indonesia.
• Leong Tak Seng describes symptom on several species of snappers in 2016.

Developments

• China's agenda in aquaculture
  Stakeholders show the way forward with green technology, sustainability, aquaculture transformation and efficiency.

Show Review

• Spotlight on Africa
  At World Aquaculture 2017, new frontiers for economic growth. By Eric Roderick

Company News & Events

• Growing with customers in Africa
• Larger presence for aqua feed market leader in Africa
• Supporting Vietnam's aquaculture growth
• Adding value to African aquaculture/ Optimum dryer performance
• Support with talk on fish parasites/ Australian-focused website
• Launch of CJ Selecta
• APA17 - Connecting aquaculture in Asia
• Release of enhanced feed probiotic for shrimp farming
• 11th National Shrimp Congress