Report of the Working Group on Marine Fish Culture (by correspondence)

The Working Group on Marine Fish Culture [WGMAFC] (Chairman: Dr B.R. Howell, UK) will work by correspondance in 1998 to plan for a meeting in 1999 to:

a) report on the eurrent status of marine fish eultivation in Member Countries and on the faetors which are likely to

constrain the further development of the industry;

b) review teehnologieal developments in relation to fish produetion and their applieation to various speeies;

c) report on the establishment of behavioural criteria which can be used to evaluate on-growing systems and operational procedures;

d) review studies of the effeet of events during early development on the phenotype of the juvenile stages and reassess the prospects for establishing predictive criteria of juvenile quality;

e) report on the establishment of a nutrient database for larval feed compositions and establish standard protoeols for nutrient analysis;

f) review progress toward the identifieation of alternative protein and lipid sourees for marine fish diets.