World Aquaculture 1 WORLD AQUACULTURE Magazine World Aquaculture magazine is published by the World Aquaculture Society. The home office address is: World Aquaculture Society, 143 J.M. Parker Coliseum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA. Tel: +1-225-578-3137; Fax: +1-225-578-3493; e-mail: carolm@was.org. World Aquaculture Society Home Page: http://www.was.org WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY OFFICERS, 2008-2009 President, Lorenzo Juarez President-elect, Dr. Jeffrey Hinshaw Past President, Sungchul (Charles) Bai Secretary, Julie Delabbio Treasurer, Jay Parsons DIRECTORS M.C. Nandeesha William Daniels Barry Costa-Pierce Marco Saroglia Graham Mair Junda Lin CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES Hoang Tung (Asian Pacific) Douglas Drennan (USAS) Rodrigo Roubach (Latin America and Caribbean) Kwang-Sik (Albert) Choi (Korea) Hiroshi Fushimi (Japan) HOME OFFICE STAFF Carol Mendoza, Director, carolm@was.org Judy E. Andrasko, Assistant Director, JudyA@was.org WORLD AQUACULTURE EDITORIAL STAFF Robert R. Stickney, Editor-in-Chief Mary Nickum, Editor Amy Broussard, Layout Editor WAS CONFERENCES AND SALES John Cooksey, Director of Conferences and Sales World Aquaculture Conference Management P.O. Box 2302 Valley Center, CA 92082 Tel: +1-760-751-5005; Fax: +1-760-751-5003 e-mail: worldaqua@aol.com Manuscripts and Correspondence: Submit two (2) copies of all manuscripts and one (1) copy of correspondence to Mary Nickum, Editor, World Aquaculture Magazine, 16201 E. Keymar Drive, Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 USA. E-mail: mjnickum@ gmail.com. Letters to the Editor or other comments should be addressed to Editor-in-Chief Robert R. Stickney, 2700 Earl Rudder Freeway South, Suite 1800, College Station, TX 77845 USA. World Aquaculture (ISSN Number 1041-5602) is published quarterly by the World Aquaculture Society, 143 J.M. Parker Coliseum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 USA. Library subscriptions are $50 annually for United States addresses, and $65 annually for addresses outside the United States. Individual subscriptions are a benefit of membership in the World Aquaculture Society. Annual membership dues: Students, $40; Individuals, $60; Corporations (for-profit), $250; Sustaining, $100 (individuals or non-profits); Lifetime (individuals), $1,000; E-Membership, $10 (no publications, meeting discounts and not an active member in last five years). Periodicals Postage paid at Baton Rouge, Louisiana and additional mailing offices. Twenty-five percent of dues is designated for a subscription to World Aquaculture magazine. Postmaster: Send address changes to the World Aquaculture Society, 143 J.M. Parker Coliseum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 USA. ©2009, The World Aquaculture Society. ■ W RLD AQUACULTURE Vol. 40 No. 3 September 2009 Cover photo: Some varieties of the Discus fish. See page 26. (Continued on page 2) 9 Productivity improvement of red clinging crab Mithraculus forceps through modeling Joana Figueiredo 14 The United States Aquaculture Society Awards — An Underutilized Benefit for Chapter Members Anita M. Kelly 16 Study on bacteriological and heavy metal contamination and its potential risk in fish farms in the Suez Canal Area, Egypt Howaida R. Gabr and Sahar El Alfy 22 First breeding of the spangled emperor, Lethrinus nebulosus (Forsskäl, 1775), in the United Arab Emirates Omer M. Yousif, Krishna Kumar and Abdul Fatah Alia 26 The current status and future prospects for the aquaculture industry in Malaysia Wing-Keong Ng 32 Freshwater shrimp culture is alive and well in Texas Granvil Treece 35 Application of several treatment techniques for solid wastes from freshwater fish farms Aintzane Esturo, María Revuelta and Jaime Zufía 41 The novel tilapia-rabbit integrated culture: A means for poverty reduction for rural people Mostafa A.R Hossain, M. Sharif Azad, M. Nahiduzzaman, Debasish Saha, M. Abu Sayeed and M. Ekram Azim 46 The evolution of a worldwide shrimp industry Hans Ackefors 58 Deepwater rice-fish integrated culture system: A viable option for increasing fish production as well as natural water harvest D. N. Das, R. N. Mandal and P. K. Mukhopadhyay
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