Product Description: Carrageenan is a gelling agent extracted from red seaweeds and it has multiple applications in the food processing and other industries. Increasing demand for carrageenan has led to rapid expansion of carrageenan seaweed (primarily Kappaphycus and Eucheuma) farming in tropical areas...read more

Product Description: As the aquaculture sector grows worldwide, appropriate planning is becoming fundamental to sustain its growth and contribution to poverty alleviation and economic development. This document acts as a guide for policy-makers and those involved at all levels of planning to assist them in the formulation and implementation of sound aquaculture policies...read more

Product Description: Aquaculture growth worldwide involves the expansion of cultivated areas, a higher density of aquaculture installations and farmed individuals, and greater use of feed resources produced outside the immediate culture area. These proceedings present the output of a workshop and include contributed papers on: definitions, principles, scales and management measures, human dimensions, economic implications and legal implications that are relevant for an ecosystem-based management in aquaculture...read more