24 June 2010 Special book promotion through October 31, 2010 The World Aquaculture Society’s (WAS) mission includes dissemination of high quality scientific information on aquaculture for the interested public, society members and especially to the scientific community, including students and libraries worldwide. This is achieved through several means including: 1) our annual and regional meetings, 2) The Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 3) World Aquaculture magazine, 4) electronic publication of meeting abstracts, books and data on aquaculture, and 5) the publication of books. Books are currently marketed through our online store at www.was.org. We have published a wide selection, which are offered at very reasonable rates for members as well as the general public. In addition, we offer a one-stop shop with a wide selection of aquaculture titles from a variety of top publishers in the English and Spanish languages. All are offered at significant discounts to members. Any individual can take advantage of these discounts by purchasing an electronic membership at nominal cost. In order to improve access to WAS publications for students and the broader academic community, the WAS is offering a one-time opportunity for libraries worldwide to purchase books published by the WAS at member rate (plus shipping) through October 31, 2010. Readers and members affiliated with academic research institutions are encouraged to send information on the opportunity to their library procurement offices. In addition, we encourage you to visit https://www.was.org/Training/TrainingUniversitySubmitForm.asp and update the information about your school’s academic programs. Our database aims for worldwide coverage, but it is only as complete as you, our membership, can make it. It only takes a few minutes to help your society maintain this valuable resource. Thank you for your help! — Craig L. Browdy Managing Book Editor World Aquaculture Society craig.browdy@novusint.com a kind host and a great debater. His eldest two children from his first wife Eniko, are Katalin, who works in HAKI, and Imre, who also works in Szarvas. Krisztian, the son of Imre and his second wife Gitta, was recently married and is a PhD student in aquaculture in Hungary. Imre also had three grandchildren, Katalin, Gabor and Daniel. On aquaculture missions he was a great traveling companion, ready to try every cuisine with gusto. He had a reputation for being able to consume the spiciest possible food, once surprising his Bhutanese hosts (for example) by asking for extra chillies on the curry that they thought would be too hot for any Westerner! His aquaculture colleagues in Bangkok remember him as very firm in his views, always making incisive, practical and sensible comments in aquaculture forums. In private, his views often led to lively debates with his aquaculture colleagues; usually he was right. He was a keen and knowledgeable collector of orchids, which adorned every spare space in and outside his house in the old part of the city of Bangkok. During the last few years of his life he had become unusually quiet and reserved; finally on the 9th of April 2010 we lost him forever. Aquaculture communities in Hungary in Asia and elsewhere in the world will always remember this emblematic figure of global aquaculture development at the end of the twentieth Century. He will be sorely missed by all who knew and worked with him. Imre Csavas (continued)
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