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Grouper Electronic Newsletter Welcome to the grouper news - a Electronic Newsletter of NACA, in cooperation with ACIAR, APEC, Queensland DPI and SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department, bringing you the latest and best news on grouper aquaculture, coral reef fisheries and aquaculture research and development. *** Grouper News Issue No. 8 - Sept-Oct 2000 ***
This is the Eight Issue of a "Grouper Electronic Newsletter" which is being circulated through e-mail, and now is also available from the grouper website. The purposes and objectives are to keep members of the grouper discussion group and other related parties updated on the latest information on research and development of grouper and coral reef fish aquaculture. The information available through this bi-monthly Newsletter is also available on the Grouper website. Many of the articles and news featured in this newsletter will also be published in hard copy in Aquaculture Asia and the SEAFDEC Asian Aquaculture magazines. To make this Grouper Electronic Newsletter more informative and useful to all of you, comments, suggestions, as well as contributions of articles, news and information on related topics and activities are very welcome. Please send in your contributions regularly to: Mr. Sih Yang SIM Please also forward this newsletter to other interested colleagues.
As a result of the APEC FWG meeting held in Seattle, USA in July an extension tothe existing grouper network project was approved, together with a new APEC project on farming the reef: Collaborative APEC Grouper Research and Development Network Collaboration between the two projects through APGN (Asia-Pacific Grouper Network) will take place to better utilise the available resources and information to best serve the projects' objectives. For further information on the projects please click on the titles.
With the growing interest in Cobia culture in the region, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) reported that cobia (Rachycentron canadum) were induced to spawn in a recirculating water system. Cobia are considered prime candidates for aquaculture development because of their fast growth rate as juveniles and an expanding demand for them in the seafood market place. For full article click here. If you cannot access this web page, and wish to receive this piece by e-mail, please contact Sih Yang SIM. For further information please contact: Mike Oesterling
Several interesting abstracts on marine finfish are available for reading, please click on the titles for full abstracts.
The preliminary version of the proceedings for the Regional Workshop on Aquaculture of Coral Reef Fishes and Sustainable Reef Fisheries held in Sabah, Malaysia 1996 is now available from the grouper web site. The proceedings consist of 5 parts and are listed as follow: Part IV: Environmental Interactions and Fishery Management Part V: Coastal Management, Socio-economics, and Trade For those who are interested to obtain a hard copy of the proceedings please contact: Annadel Salvio Cabanban
Articles that are of interest in this issue: For direct connection to the full web site please click here. For further information please contact: Bob (R.E) Johannes
The Information Section of the Marine Resources Division, has just released two new publications on the SPC website: 1.) Information Bulletin #13 (July 2000) is now available at: http://www.spc.org.nc/coastfish/News/BDM/bdm.htm. Contents include:
2.) SPC Fisheries Newsletter #92 is now available at: http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/Fish_News/accueil-fish-news.htm For further information please contact: Aymeric Desurmont
This section is intended to give updated trade and market information relevant to grouper and coral reef fish aquaculture in the region. The write out will cover marine live food fish, fresh and chilled fish, and also ornamental species in the region. Recognising that there is growing interest in aquaculture of a wide range of marine fish species, and that grouper 'farmers' often culture a wide diversity of fish species, this section will include other fish species where relevant.
A new section "Products & Services" will be created in the grouper website and the electronic newsletter. This new section will serve as a platform to provide information on aquaculture equipments; fry; live & fresh chilled; consultation services; projects; etc. If you wish to include your company's products or services in this section please provide a brief write out of your products & services, together with full address and e-mail contact, and send it to Asia-Pacific Grouper Network (APGN). Please be advised that the aim of this section is to serve the marine finfish aquaculture sector only, so your products and services should be related to the sector. This advertising activity is free of charge, initially this will run for a period of six months. The information will be posted to all the subscriber of this Electronic Newsletter, as well as in the Grouper Network Website. The advertiser is advised to update Grouper Network their products & services on a regular basis, and provide feedback to Grouper Network with regards to any enquiry or transaction occurred result in this advertising activity. The purpose is to examine the efficiency and effectiveness of this system to the Grouper Network in the region.
Due to various uploading problems, the web site for NACA IMAGE LIBRARY is currently under construction. We will keep readers informed!! However, viewing of existing photos can be done by click on the Image Library.
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Grouper Electronic Newsletter of NACA, is brought to you by NACA Secretariat in cooperation with ACIAR, Queensland DPI and SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department. If you have any problems or queries contact us at: [email protected] Views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily those of NACA or other contributing institutions. Unless stated otherwise articles may be copied or quoted without restriction, provided originating author(s), institution(s) and the NACA Secretariat are acknowledged. ****************************** END**************************
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