The authors hereby acknowledge the important contribution of the authors and coordinators of the studies carried out at the national level: Dr G. Cañote Santamarina and Mr Alfredo Espinal, Instituto del Mar del Perú; Ms Aurora Zugarramurdi and Ing. Ricardo L. Boeri, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mr Christopher Parker, Fisheries Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Barbados; Mr Ian Horsford, Fisheries Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries, Antigua and Barbuda; Ms S. Kuruvilla, Fisheries Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources, Trinidad and Tobago; Mr Moustapha Deme, Centre de Recherche Océanographique Dakar-Thiaroye, Senegal; Mr T.A. Shipton and Mr L.K. Oellermann, Enviro-Fish Africa (Pty) Ltd, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, South Africa; Mr Jean-Michel Lery, Sobretah, France; Prof. Terje Vassdal and Mr Oystein Hermansen, University of Tromsoe, Norway; Mr Rolf Lasch, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Braunschweig, Germany; Mr M.A. Upare, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mumbai, India; Dr Somying Piumsombun, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Bangkok, Thailand; and Mr Sam-Kwang Cho, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Republic of Korea.
