Editor
Neil Sims
Production
Pacific Community, Fisheries Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems Division, Information Section, SPC, BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.
Produced with financial assistance from the Australia, France and New Zealand.
Note from the editor
Thank you all very much for your feedback on the inaugural issue of the P.O.I.B. We are always keen to hear from you, and to hear how your work proceeds. The real merits of the Bulletin will become increasingly apparent as we work and learn together.
This issue is a mite belated. We hope to publish twice yearly, but retain the prerogative of a flexible schedule. Among other things, your Editor has moved to take on a position with a research company in Hawaii. Please note the new address above.
Many have written enquiring about membership of the Pearl Oyster Special Interest Group. To join, you must simply register your interest with the South Pacific Commission. We have included a copy of the Questionnaire on the back of this issue, to simplify the process. If you are not an official member (Was your name on the mailing list in P.O.I.B. #1? Is your name included in this issue’s membership update?), you should fill this in, and forward it to Garry Preston or Jean-Paul Gaudechoux, at SPC, Noumea (the full address is on the form). SPC is forming other Special Interest Groups as the need arises, so please also indicate on the Questionnaire your other areas of interest.
There is a lot of exciting news in this issue. The most significant for the long-term development of the industry is the publication by the Indian research team at CMFRI, Tuticorin, of their hatchery success with Pinctada margaritifera . This was actually published in early 1989, in Aquaculture. We congratulate the Indian authors, and hope to hear more from them in the future.(con't p 2)
Neil Sims