WWW.WAS.ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • JUNE 2017 9 In each issue of World Aquaculture, we summarize a new and exciting research paper from the relaunched Journal of the World Aquaculture Society. This issue’s selected paper is “Resource Use Assessment of Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon, Production in Thailand and Vietnam” by Claude E. Boyd, Aaron A. McNevin, Phoebe Racine, Huynh Quoc Tinh, Hang Ngo Minh, Rawee Viriyatum, Duangchai Paungkaew, and Carole Engle. Aquaculture now exceeds fisheries in food supply to humans, after decades of rapid expansion. Key resources, in particular land, water and energy may however become increasingly limiting to aquaculture growth at multiple scales. Understanding resource efficiencies for main species and regions is thus imperative to ensure future production. This article found that Litopenaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon farming land, water and total energy use per metric ton of product reduced markedly with increasing production intensity. A similar trend could not, however, be observed for impact on wild fish supplies. The authors argue that even small improvements in FCR (e.g. 1.4 to 1.3) would result in global savings of more than 300 million m3 of freshwater and 70 thousand ha of land for L. vannamei alone. The article contributes valuable indicators of efficient and sustainable shrimp culture as well as arguing the importance of intensification and high-quality formulated diets in reducing resource demand. This paper can be found in the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 48(2):201-226, available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ journal/10.1111/jwas.12394 or under Publications at www.was.org. — Matthew Slater, Section Editor, JWAS Recent Research Highlight from the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society The Editorial Board of the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society is pleased to announce the 2016 Best Paper Awards in the categories of Review Article, Applied Studies, and Fundamental Studies. Review Article: Boyd, C.E., C.S. Tucker, and B. Somridhivej. 2016. Alkalinity and hardness: critical but elusive concepts in aquaculture. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 47(1):6-41 Applied Studies: Peterson, B.C., C. Flora, M. Wood, B.G. Bosworth, S.M. Quiniou, T.E. Greenway, T.S. Byars, and D.J. Wise. 2016. 2016 Best Paper Awards of the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society Vaccination of full-sib channel catfish families against enteric septicemia of catfish with an oral live attenuated Edwardsiella ictaluri vaccine. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 47(2):207-211. Fundamental Studies: Zhao, D., L. Pan, F. Huang, C. Wang, and W. Xu. 2016. Effects of different carbon sources on bioactive compound production of biofloc, immune response, antioxidant level, and growth performance of Litopenaeus vannamei in zero-water exchange culture tanks. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 47(4):566-576. These articles are available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com or through the Publications tab at www.was.org. NEW BOOK IN THE WAS ONLINE STORE Aquaculture: Will it rise to its potential to feed the world? By George S. Lockwood. Aquaculture is the most environmentally sustainable means to feed the population boom that threatens the planet. Will government allow it to do this critically important job? Paperback 199 pages. ISBN: 9781366393340
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