18 SEPTEMBER 2012 well within reach of any modern hatchery with well-trained technicians. All-female culture has the potential to revolutionize prawn farming by allowing intensification and direct competition with marine shrimp in the market. The prawn farming book has several other notable features. It includes eight pages of color plates illustrating prawn larval stages, sexual dimorphism, and prawn aquaculture in Thailand, India, and the USA. The book is otherwise richly illustrated with graphs, tables, and other figures, although the quality of some of these is a bit marginal. The chapter on prawn marketing includes five pages of prawn recipes. The topic of mushiness, one of my pet peeves with prawns, is addressed forthrightly. Even chapters on somewhat generic topics, such as site selection, water quality, and economics, are of excellent quality. Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive listing of essential references. The book has a 14-page, well-constructed index. The book is physically heavy and dense, typical for Wiley publications, with an artful cover of green prawn outlines on a blue background. This book will have the greatest appeal to prawn aquaculture scientists (most of whom contributed to this book) and other scientists interested in crustacean aquaculture and biology. The book is also of interest to aquaculture generalists, with abundant specific information on various topics with reference to prawns. It could be used as the text for a graduate-level course on prawn aquaculture. Certainly it has a place on the shelves of any university library with a collection of aquaculture reference works. This book is likely to stand for at least a decade as representative of the state of the science and art of prawn farming around the world. 1Editor-in-Chief, World Aquaculture magazine Book Review, continued from page 8 website (www.was.org/APC). We know that processing the payment for WAS and APC membership can be difficult for some to accomplish. If that is the case, please contact your APC CA or EAC representative, who may be able to take a cash payment and process the membership for you. We continue to look forward to an eventful and exciting 2012 for WAS and the APC! —Lukas Manomaitis, President Asia Pacific Chapter Update, continued from page 7 our Society’s support for student members. Under the leadership of Chris Green and the Student Affairs Committee, we will continue to work with WAS students to determine how we can help them move into professional positions in academia, research and the private sector. These students will play an important role in the development of technologies to produce the seafood resources needed to feed the world and restore our oceans’ declining fisheries. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our retiring Board members and to thank them for their years of service. Special thanks to Jay Parsons who will complete his term as Immediate Past President in Prague. Jay deserves special recognition for his 12 years of service on the WAS Board as our President, President Elect, four terms as Treasurer, and as Director. Of course, we could not convene the outstanding WAS conferences and provide valuable services our membership without our Executive Director, John Cooksey, and the home office staff, President’s Column, continued from page 3 Carol Mendoza and Judy Andrasko. In 2013, we will hold our Triennial meeting in a new venue to the World Aquaculture Society - Nashville, Tennessee. At this meeting, WAS will partner with the National Shellfisheries Association and the Fish Culture Section of the American Fisheries Society in what promises to be the largest aquaculture conference in the world. As we continue to move our annual meetings around the globe, we will once again meet in Australia in 2014 and Korea in 2015. The Board is already planning our first meeting on the African continent, which will take place in 2017 in Durban, South Africa. Finally I want you to know that I look forward to working with you to continue to grow our organization and provide the services you are looking for from the World Aquaculture Society. Please contact me at KMain@Mote.org and let me know how you would like to get involved. Let me know how we can help you, and let’s work together to improve our professional society and make it what you what it to be. — Kevan L. Main, President Aquaculture without Frontiers, continued from page 9 reduce the demand for fishmeal globally. For some last comments regarding AwF, we refer again to Michael New who said back in 2003, “It is difficult to imagine that the idea of long-term environmental responsibility could be attractive to someone who is wondering where the next meal will come from and whether the family can be fed next week or next month, let alone next year.” Thoughts of environmental and generational sustainability have to be way below the priorities of current survival. Those of us who have not yet had the privilege of working in developing countries may not understand this. Oscar Wilde noted that: “There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.” If you would like to donate or get involved with AwF in any way then please contact us through www. aquaculturewithoutfrontiers.org. — Roy Palmer, Director, AwF
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