As part of its Fisheries Technical Paper series, FAO`s Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has just published "Assessment of freshwater fish seed resources for sustainable aquaculture", edited by M.G. Bondad-Reantaso. The 628-page publication is organised in two parts. Part 1 contains the proceedings and major recommendations of an expert workshop held on 23-26 March 2006 in Wuxi, China with 3 major themes: key issues concerning (i) seed quality, genetics, technology and certification; (ii) seed networking, distribution, entrepreneurship and certification; and (iii) development of the freshwater fish seed production sector that will benefit rural fish farmers. Part 2 contains 3 regional syntheses; 21 country case studies; 5 thematic reviews and 3 contributed papers on freshwater fish seed resources for sustainable aquaculture. One of the thematic reviews, by G.C. Mair and entitled "Genetics and breeding in seed supply for inland aquaculture", covers the application of genetic technologies in aquaculture. See http://www.fao.org/tempref/docrep/fao/010/a1495e/a1495e00.pdf or contact [email protected] for more information.

09/02/2008