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EDITORIAL Could I come over TO YOUR PLACE? A fter being "guest editorial" in the last issue, it looks like I'm here to stay. Picture me setting up my desk at New Zealand Aquaculture magazine; a leafy plant, a picture of my grinning family, a goldfish pottering about in a well-kept tank… Actually, I don't have any of those things, apart from the desk and a computer. I do have a grinning family, although until now it's never occurred to me to bring a photograph to work, maybe I will. There is something I would like to add to my desk, something less tangible than a picture frame – experience. Like all good things, cheese, wine and grinning families, experience takes time, and I'm looking forward to gaining more of both at Professional Skipper and New Zealand Aquaculture magazine. Which means, if you're in the aquaculture industry and receive an email asking what interesting work you've been up to lately and if you can share your story, please do – or direct me to someone who can. And also, could I come over to your place? If you're down on the farm and your mobile phone trills with a notification asking if I might visit, please say yes! Comments, contributions and suggestions from readers will be welcome as I learn the aquaculture ropes – literally and figuratively. This, my second issue, is rather news heavy as I acquaint myself with the aquacult, but look out for some fresh New Zealand editorial in November/December from the good folks in the department of zoology in Otago. This issue's small feature story hails from India - last time the feature was from the Central Institute of Fisheries Education in Mumbai – and this time it is from the researchers at the College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University and the Centre for Aquaculture Research and Development in Tripura. These co-authored stories are derived from academic work and, at least for me, have brought up many related topics, unbroached in the articles themselves. Our feature last issue 'A Case Study: Seed nursing by farmers of Udaipur, India', raised worrying considerations about pesticides used in fish farming.The farmers of Udaipur in Tripura northeast India were described as using clinar, a veterinary treatment for parasite infections and endosulfan, a cousin to the infamous DDT, in order to kill the weed fishes prior to pond stocking. One of our readers (see page 5) wrote a letter encouraging BY JESSIE KOLLEN others to Google endosulfan – which I promptly did. I discovered that it does indeed make for some interesting reading but when Googling images for endosulfan, "interesting" is no longer the right word and "disturbing" becomes its replacement… While some of the information about the effects of endosulfan in India is confused, it is at least certain that the threats the chemical poses to human health and the environment are internationally understood to be real and are such that New Zealand is one of the countries that determined to phase-out and ban the toxic and bioaccumulative agrichemical. India, China and a few other countries still use endosulfan, and it is still being readily produced and marketed by Makhteshim Agan, a global company that specialises in branded off-patent pesticides. Previously Israeli owned, the company was acquired by ChemChina in 2011, and as far as I can tell, it's still going strong. On page 8 'Fish Derived Nutraceuticals… and food preservatives' also made me curious about a related topic; the sources for these fish derived nutraceutical products – a big industry, fish oil based products are one of the most popular dietary supplements on the market. The oil for shark liver capsules comes from deep sea sharks, like gulper, basking and school sharks – all vulnerable and becoming rare. It's the same old story and it doesn't get any less depressing. At least there are those companies – and in New Zealand – that take their businesses and the safety of their products seriously, and there are researchers and organisations around the world working to find ways to make aquaculture better in tune with its environment – and even to help solve pollution problems. This issue's Food Safety columnist Dorothy-Jean McCoubrey talks about how oysters could relieve pollution in Cape Cod and Justine Inns of Ocean Law describes how the "greenies" may actually have got it right in some aspects of the Resource Management Act. In my future editorials I'll be looking to find more positive things to say about the New Zealand and international aquaculture industry, and when I say looking, I mean looking, I really do want to start visiting farms and research centres soon – so do you think I could come over to your place? 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