This book is based on an Fao/Norad meeting on the strategy for development of aquaculture as an industry and on the author's wide experience with Fao. After introducing the subject and its present organization, attention is given to the basic data required for aquaculture planning, the varying need of small-scale rural aquaculture and large-scale industry. Other chapters cover auxiliary industries, manpower needs and training, research and information, manpower neds and training, research and information, investment decisions and financing, legal rights to sites and stocks, disease control and public health safeguards, conflicts in stocks, disease control and public health safeguards, conflicts in land and water use, pollution and other environmental problems. This useful treatise is amply illustrated to provide guidance in planning aquaculture development individually and nationally.