Oceania

A report from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) describes how new techniques for mapping the mangrove swamps are used as a vital first step to protecting these unique ecosystems in Africa and elsewhere.

For years, the shrimp aquaculture industry has played an important role in the socio-economic situation in Thailand, write Leepaisomboon, T., Chuchird, N., Limsuwan, C., Steenbruggen, E.R., and Mungkung, R, in this Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacifi…

Tough market conditions are forcing big changes on the way Australian Fisheries operate. The real gross value of fisheries products has fallen by 22 per cent in nine years, falling another one per cent over 2007/08 - but a rapidly expanding aquaculture industr…