From the EAS President

FEATURE ARTICLE
- European Percid Fish Culture (EPFC) - Workshop 2012 summary

ARTICLES
- Need for an evaluation monitoring framework on the ecological footprints of L. vannamei in Indian marine ecosystem

MEMBER NEWS
- The European Aquaculture Society Board of Directors 2012-2014
- FishfarmingXpert special subscription offer for EAS members
- Minutes of the 2012 General Assembly of the European Aquaculture Society

NEW PUBLICATIONS

EATIP: Evoution and development of the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform and its supporting initiative AQUAINNOVA

RESEARCH FOCUS
- SENSE in the food and drink value chain
- New research project to protect sustainability of EU aquaculture

OTHER NEWS
- The German Aquaculture Association
- Veggy pussy: 'I am not a vegetarian'
- 'Aquaculture in Motion' by FEAP

AQUACULTURE MEETINGS
- AQUA 2012 - Patrick Sorgeloos recognised by highest EAS Award
- AQUA 2012 - Keynote presentations
- AQUA 2012 - Outcomes from the Round-table discussion on Quality of Fish Flesh
- AQUA 2012 - Awards
- AQUA 2012 - Summary student workshop
- Offshore mariculture industry looks to high seas opportunities
- Aquaculture Europe 2013 - Making Sense of Science
- The International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety (ICMSS)
- Calendar

From the EAS President

FEATURE ARTICLE
- Bremerhaven declaration on the future of global open ocean aquaculture

ARTICLES
- Microbiological monitoring of bivalve molluscs
- Selective breeding and domestication - new key-terms in aquaculture
- Dietary supplementation of scFOS in fish and shrimp: a promising way to improve gut health, immunity and growth performance
- Sea cucumber ban in India - is it a silent mockery of science and conservation?
- Development of the oyster farming in the middle Adriatic sea

AQUACULTURE MEETINGS
- The Oyster World Congress 2012

NEW PUBLICATIONS

MEMBER NEWS
- Outcomes of the 2012 publications survey

OTHER NEWS
- A strong signal of political will to develop aquaculture
- After nine year AwF (UK) consolidates its activities
- Two new appointments within the French Aquaculture Sector

AQUACULTURE MEETINGS
- Calendar

From the EAS President

FEATURE ARTICLE
- Aquaculture in the Czech Republic in 2012: Moderne European prosperous sector based on thousand-year history of pond culture

ARTICLES
- Aquaculture livestock insurance
- Tyumen Region, Russia: fish versus oil and gas
- Monoclonal antibody and its application in aquaculture

RESEARCH FOCUS
- Towards environmentally friendly aquaculture for Atlantic salmon
- Improved nutrition for sustainable aquaculture
- Marine Knowledge Gate - The Key to Pandoras £Box (March 2012)

MEMBER NEWS
- New premium sponsor for EAS
- Candidates for the 2012 Board of Directors

NEW PUBLICATIONS

OTHER NEWS
- The changeing world for fish, both wild and cultivated

AQUACULTURE EUROPE MEETINGS UPDATE
- AQUA 2012: Bringing together global stakeholders to 'secure our future'

AQUACULTURE MEETINGS
- The Oyster World Congress
- Calendar

From the EAS President

FEATURE ARTICLE
- Developments and trends in worldwide abalone farming and implications for the European industry

ARTICLES
- Bacterial disease in cultured warm water fish remains a serious problem, but can be controlled
- Biology and conservation: the reunion of the European and Atlantic sturgeons
- Compensatory growth in fishes - A boon to aquaculture
- What do consumers perceive from fish farmed products? A qualitative case study from Catalonia (Spain)
- Criteria for the choice, differentiation and maturity of technologies in the Spanish aquaculture sector: differential analysis by subsectors, geographical areas, species and activities

NEW PUBLICATIONS

MEMBER NEWS
- Minutes of the 2011 Extraordinary General Assembly of the European Aquaculture Society
- Introducing the EAS Thematic Group on European Percid Fish Culture (EPFC)

AQUACULTURE EUROPE MEETINGS UPDATE
- AQUA 2012: Science responds to industry needs

AQUACULTURE MEETINGS
- Promicrobe PhD course and training school
- Domestication in finfish aquaculture
- AquaInnova providing solid support to EATIP in 2011
- A series of 4 workshops to further aquaculture development in Europe
- Calendar

OTHER NEWS
- New Italian Shellfish Association