WWW.WAS.ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • DECEMBER 2025 1 WORLD AQUACULTURE MAGAZINE WORLD AQUACULTURE magazine is published by the World Aquaculture Society. The home office address is: World Aquaculture Society, PO Box 397, Sorrento LA 70778-0397 USA. P and F: +1-225-347-5408; Email: JudyA@was.org World Aquaculture Society Home Page: www.was.org WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY OFFICERS, 2025-26 Wendy Sealey, President David Cline, Immediate Past President Foluke Areola, President-Elect Matt Parker, Treasurer Angela Caporelli, Secretary DIRECTORS Shivaun Leonard Yahira Piedrahita Catriona Macleod Brian Small Kathleen Hartman Russell Grice Benter Anyango, Student Director CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES Khalid Salie, African Bibha Kumari, Asian Pacific Han-kyu Lim, Korean Luis Andrés Gonzalez-Agraz, Latin America and Caribbean Michelle Walsh, USAS HOME OFFICE STAFF Judy Edwards Andrasko, Director, JudyA@was.org Killian A. Haydel, Assistant Director, killianh@was.org WORLD AQUACULTURE EDITORIAL STAFF C. Greg Lutz, Editor-in-Chief Cecilia C. Nichols, Editorial Assistant Linda Noble, Layout Editor WAS CONFERENCES AND SALES John Cooksey, Executive Director of Conferences and Sales World Aquaculture Conference Management P.O. Box 2302, Valley Center, CA 92082 P: +1-760-751-5005; F: +1-760-751-5003 Email: worldaqua@was.org MANUSCRIPTS AND CORRESPONDENCE Submit manuscripts as Microsoft Word files to C. Greg Lutz at glutz@agcenter.lsu.edu. Letters to the Editor or other comments should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief at glutz@agcenter.lsu.edu. WORLD AQUACULTURE (ISSN 1041-5602), is published quarterly by the World Aquaculture Society, 6203 Jonathan Alaric Avenue, Gonzales, LA 70737 USA. Individual subscriptions are a benefit of membership in the World Aquaculture Society. Annual membership dues: Students, $45; Individuals, $90; Corporations, $295; Sustaining, $155 (individuals or non-profits); Lifetime (individuals) $1,400. ©2025, The World Aquaculture Society. W RLD AQUACULTURE VOL. 56 NO. 4 DECEMBER 2025 12 In Memoriam: Dr. Flower Ezekiel Msuya 15 Seaweed Aquaculture in Saudi Arabia: Community Partnerships and New Opportunities for Agar Production Osamah Ahmad, Ibrahim Almohsen, Raul Rincones, Pedro Guemes, Benjamin C. Young, Saif Algethami and Ali Al Shaikhi 20 From Ocean to Land: Eco-Friendly Pearl Production through Onshore Marine Oyster Culture Ajai Kumar Sonkar 26 Are We Wasting It? The Story of Phosphorus and Salmon Lucia Drábiková, Saskia Kröckel, P. Eckhard Witten, Guido Riesen, Paul Morris, Agnés Ostertag, Martine Cohen-Solal, Thomas W.K. Fraser and Per Gunnar Fjelldal 35 Taal Lake’s Legacy: From Sunken Towns to Sustainable Aquaculture Randy Begtang, Lorenzo Raphael M. Deza and Janice A. Ragaza 42 Thraustochytrids as a Promising Source of Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Functional Bioactives for Sustainable Aquaculture Kurapati Nagendrasai, Saurav Kumar, Chundru Sri Sai Venkat, Bhautik Savaliya and Rishikesh Venkatrao Kadam 46 The Oyster Chronicles: Tales of Grit, Growth, and the Changing Seas Michael S. Candelaria, Kathleen Harris Kin B. Ybanez and Janice A. Ragaza 52 Building the Capacity of Aquaculture For the Blue Economy in the Caribbean Juli-Anne Royes Russo Ph.D. 56 Onions to the Rescue: Natural Compounds From Allium Cepa Show Promise Against European Seabass Pathogens Jose F. Cabello-Gómez, Iria Folgueira López, Carmen García de Lomas del Cid, María del Mar Agraso Martínez and Alberto Baños Arjona 58 Safer Seas with New Farms? How New Salmon Farming Technologies Are Changing the Way People Work Kristine Vedal Størkersen, Cecilie Salomonsen, Trine Thorvaldsen, Siri Mariane Holen and Trond Kongsviki 60 Antibiotics in Aquaculture: Cure or Curse? Banothu Divya, Banoth Raveendar, Shiga Nagaraj, Konduri Arun and M. Shyam Prasadki 64 Turning Coal Mines into Aquatic Gold: Sustainable Fish Farming in Abandoned Pits Vinod Kumar 67 High Growth Rate of Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar, is Linked to Tissue Oxidation, Consumption of Antioxidants and Risk of Oxidative Stress Kristin Hamre, Peng Yin, Takaya Saito and Per Gunnar Fjelldal 70 A Review of Fish Health and Welfare Challenges in African Aquaculture: Implications of Cultural Practices Tafadzwa Maredza and Alice Namata 76 Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii): A Potential Candidate Species in Aquaculture Diversification in Bihar, India Tarkeshwar Kumar, Vivekanand Bharti, Kamal Sarma, S.K. Ahirwal and Anup Das COVER: Taal Lake, its neighboring volcano, and the surrounding communities have been intertwined since before the Philippines even existed as a country. See story, page 35. (CONTENTS CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
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