World Aquaculture 5 It is with great sadness that I wish to announce the passing away of Yang Yi, the beloved President of the Asian Fisheries Society and Professor in the College of Aqua-Life Science and Technology at the Shanghai Fisheries University on the early morning of August 1, 2009. The Society had lost a great friend and a leader in aquaculture. On behalf of the Council and members of the Asian Fisheries Society, I wish to extend my heartfelt condolences and sympathy to his family and parents in Chengdu. Prof. Yang Yi was born on June 19, 1963. He received his B.Sc. from Sichuan University, China in 1985 and his M.Sc. and D. Tech. Sc. degrees from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand in 1992 and 1997, respectively. His research interests were aquaculture production systems, aquaculture wastewater treatment and recycling, water quality analyses and management in aquaculture, fish genetics and information data. Prof Yang Yi was a visiting research investigator at the University of Michigan, USA, where he gained advanced knowledge in computer modeling, experimental design and data analyses. He had more than 20 years of teaching and research experience in aquaculture. He was an Assistant/ The passing of Prof.Yan Yi Associate Professor at AIT seconded by the University of Michigan through its USAID sponsored Aquaculture CRSP project from June 1999 to July 2007. In 2007 he re-located back to China and took up the dual position of Professor at the Shanghai Fisheries University in Shanghai and the Director of Sichuan Aquacultural Engineering and Technology Research Center in Chengdu, China. He coordinated the Aquaculture CRSP activities in South and Southeast Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam and China since 1999. Prof Yang Yi was a very active member of the Asian Fisheries Society (AFS) and a councilor of AFS. His contributions were recognized by AFS members and he was elected as the President of AFS 2007-2010. Yang Yi was an excellent aquatic scientist and a friend to many young scientists in Asia. He had always worked tirelessly for AFS and was my great personal friend. His departure will be sorely missed by all his friends and colleagues in the Asian-Pacific. Prof. Yang Yi had been a member of the World Aquaculture Society since 2003. — Dr Chan-Lui Lee Immediate Past President, AFS Attention Shutterbugs We get a lot of great photos that appear in conjunction with many of the articles in World Aquaculture, but we often need to search for a really outstanding cover photo. We get some good photos that are oriented horizontally and don’t work well as covers. How would you like to have one of your photos featured on a cover of this magazine? World Aquaculture announces the cover photo competition. Submit your aquaculture-related photos to editor Mary Nickum (see page one for how to do that). They need to be high resolution (350 dpi or better preferred) digital photos taken vertically as shown in the example. We’ll pick what we consider to be the best photo from among those submitted each quarter. Photos should be submitted by February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 for the March, June, September and December issues, respectively. Don’t forget to send a caption with your photos so we can tell the readers what they’re looking at.
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