WWW.WAS.ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • MARCH 2026 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 Imad Saoud, Asian Pacific Han-kyu Lim, Korean Luis Andrés Gonzalez-Agraz, Latin America and Caribbean Adriane Michaelis, 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. ©2026, The World Aquaculture Society. W RLD AQUACULTURE VOL. 57 NO. 1 MARCH 2026 7 United States Aquaculture Society (USAS) Student Subunit 2025 Annual Report Summary Julianne Grenn, Abdulmalik Oladipupo, and Adriane Michaelis 10 WAS African Chapter (WAS-AC) Welcomes Dr. Khalid Salie as its New President as Other New Members are Appointed to its Executive Board of Directors 16 The Journal of the World Aquaculture Society Editor’s Choice Awards 56(6) 17 WAS Photo Archive to be Established 18 Crawling Battles: Anthropogenic Threats to the Crustaceans of Sasmuan Pampanga Coastal Wetlands, Philippines Karl Patrick D. Taguberi, Hannah Nicole C. Gasmen and Janice A. Ragaza 26 Captive Breeding: A Strategic Approach for the Recovery of the Endangered Catfish Horabagrus nigricollaris, Endemic to the Western Ghats, India Abhilash. C.P, Charan Ravi, Saikrishnan KR, Sarath Varghese, T.T Ajith Kumar and V. S. Basheer 30 Why Zebrafish Is a Model Organism in Research: A Deep Dive Vatsalya Bhatt and Maharshi Limbola 35 Fenced and Feral: Farming and Spread of Flowerhorn (Amphilophus spp.) in Lake Sampaloc, Philippines Hannah Nicole C. Gasmen and Janice A. Ragaza 42 Why India’s Shrimp Success is Also Its Weakness Amina S, Naveen Nivas S, Dinesh Kaippilly and Geeji MT 46 First Record of Induced Spawning, Larval Rearing and Juveniles’ Development of the Blackspot Snapper, Lutjanus Ehrenbergii (Family: Lutjanidae) in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Balamurgan Vadivel, John Antony, Omer M. Yousif, Krishnakumar Menon, Muhammad S. Irshan, Balamugunthan T. Arunasalam and Jeremiah Buendia 50 Cost-Efficient Fish Feed Formulation: Insights from Linear Programming Applications in Bangladesh FMS Abdal and Uttam Deb 52 Macrobrachium lar (Monkey River prawn): A Potential Candidate Species for Aquaculture in Andaman Islands Chittaranjan Raul, R. Kiruba Sankar, J. Praveenraj and Udipta Roy 55 Calling Fish Welfare Experts for a Cross-Disciplinary Study: Aquaria, Aquaculture, Exotic Fish Breeding and Aquatic Laboratories 56 The Integration of Fish Farming into Crop Irrigation Systems Across Six Southern US States Ramon M. Kourie 63 Greening Aquaculture: Sustainable Practices for a Resource-Limited Future (From a Perspective Consistent with Global Trends) Yomna Elshamy 66 Genomic Selection for Improved Fatty Acid Composition in Red Snapper: A Pathway Toward Sustainable, High-Quality Aquaculture Kathiresan Purushothaman and Shubha Vij 69 De-Risking Aquaculture: Why Ventures Fail and How to Build Resilient Success Lorenzo M. Juárez, Juan-Pablo Lazo, Antonio Garza de Yta, Trond Bjorndal, Carlos Wurmann and Humberto Villarreal 72 Singapore Aquaculture: From Coastal Farming to Building Capability and Long-Term Resilience in a City-State Mark Richards, Sharley Goi, Jun Hui Jiang, Rui Goncalves and Melvin Chow COVER: The Sasmuan Pampanga Coastal Wetlands have been a biodiversity hotspot in the Philippines, but human activities threaten resident aquatic species — especially crustaceans. See story, page 18. (CONTENTS CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
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