Guest Editorial

The joint workshop on Aquacultural Engineering and Simulation, sponsored by the US National Research Council (NRC) and the Committee for Scientific and Scholarly Communication with the United States (SSCUS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan, was held at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in January of 1985. The workshop came at a time when the world aquaculture community has begun to realize that, in the development of commercial aquaculture, engineering and management technology must be accorded increasingly important roles in order that available biological knowledge can be utilized to produce profits for investors. As in any emerging fields of endeavor, there is difficulty in defining the new field of Aquacultural Engineering, and this was reflected in the diversity of papers presented at the workshop. As the Co-chairmen of the Workshop and Co-editors of the workshop proceedings, we wish to call attention to the wide spectrum of topics under which the presented papers were grouped, and the overlapping of papers in different topics. We wish to take particular note of these features of the workshop papers in the hope that the diversity of activity in Aquacultural En~neering will persist, even expand, in the foreseeable future. The commercialization of aquaculture has made it increasingly clear that engineering technology, in its broadest sense, is the required catalyst that ensures the efficiency in aquaculture production, which can simply be viewed as an interaction of capital and biological knowledge. These proceedings are but a first attempt by a group of interested participants to yield an incomplete glimpse of aquacultural engineering activities in areas covered by the two sponsoring agencies.
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Aquacultural Engineering (5) (1986) -- Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd,

England, 1986. Printed in Great Britain

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The US Chairman (GDP) and Co-chairman (J-KW) wish to acknowledge the support of the US National Research Council and the invaluable assistance and encouragement of Dr Griffen Shay. Professional Associate of the National Research Council. We also acknowledge contributions of participating scientists and their institutions for giving freely of their time and expert information. We thank Dr Lori Moore, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii, for her assistance in editing the manuscripts, and Ms Anita Belanger, The Oceanic Institute, for organizing, communicating, and ensuring their timely submission. The Chairman and Co-chairman thank the Oceanic Institute and the University of Hawaii respectively for their support of our efforts. Finally, on behalf of the entire US delegation, we wish to express our appreciation for the opportunity to work with honorable and knowledgable scientists and engineers from the Republic of China and their Distinguished Chairman, Dr Paul Hao.

3aw-Kai Wang Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 3050 Maile Way, Honohdu, Hawaii 96822, USA Gary D. Pruder The Oceanic Institute, Makapuu Point, Waimanalo, Hawaii 96795, USA