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1. Title

   Community-based fish culture in seasonal floodplains

   Description

   This brief research article examines the possibility of using flooded land that is temporarily unavailable for crop production to produce a crop of aquatic organisms through case studies of community-based management systems in Bangladesh and Vietnam. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldBank Center, in 2006.

   Author

   M. M. Dey; M. Prein

   Publisher

   The WorldFish Center

   http://www.worldfishcenter.org/resource_centre/community.pdf

2. Title

   Evaluation of the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to food security in developing countries

   Description

   This article discusses the issue of demand for fish products exceeding the natural supply and some of the ways to develop aquaculture to encourage rapid growth in fish production. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2005.

   Author

   R. C. Akpaniteaku; M. Weimin; Y. Xinhua

   Publisher

   The WorldFish Center

   http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/na_2324.pdf

3. Title

   From drawing board to dining table: the success story of the GIFT project

   Description

   This article describes the Genetic Improvement of Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) project, which involved the development of methods for genetic enhancement of tropical finfish using Nile tilapia as a test species, and describes the impacts of the project on the adoption of these methods for other species and the dissemination of improved breeds in several countries in Asia and the Pacific. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2004.

   Author

   M. V. Gupta; B. O. Acosta

   Publisher

   The WorldFish Center

   http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/naga27-3n4/pdf/article01.pdf

4. Title

   Future for fish in the food and livelihoods of the poor in Asia

   Description

   This article describes the Fish Supply and Demand in Asia project which profiled key technologies in aquaculture and fisheries; analysed policies, the institutional environment and the support services to assess policy options; drew a socioeconomic profile of major stakeholders in the sectors; analysed projections for fish supply and demand in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam; and formulated action plans based on the findings. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2004.

   Author

   M. Briones; M. M. Dey; M. Ahmed

   Publisher

   The WorldFish Center

   http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/na_2321.pdf

5. Title

   Genetic diversity in wild stocks of the giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii): implications for aquaculture and conservation

   Description

   This article discusses the potential use of wild stocks of giant freshwater prawns as a method of improving the genetics of culture stocks and studies the extent and patterns of genetic diversity in wild giant freshwater prawn stocks to assist decisions about the direction of future breeding programs. This article was originally published in Naga, the quarterly magazine of The WorldFish Center, in 2003.

   Author

   P. B. Mather; M. de Bruyn

   Publisher

   The WorldFish Center

   http://www.worldfishcenter.org/Naga/naga26-4/pdf/naga-26-4-article1.pdf