Institution: | 1. Aquaculture/Fisheries Department, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA;2. Department of economics, University of the Philippines at Los Ba?os, Laguna, Philippines;3. Division of Agricultural Economics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India;4. Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative, Bangkok, Thailand;5. Department of Economics, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh;6. Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;7. Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia;8. National Aquaculture Development Authority , Colombo, Sri Lanka;9. Faculty of Economics, An Giang University, Vietnam;10. Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Jakarta, Indonesia;11. Madan Mohan Dey (email: ) is a professor in the Aquaculture/Fisheries Department, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA, and a senior research fellow of The WorldFish Center, Penang, Malaysia;12. Yolanda T. Garcia (email: is an associate professor in the department of economics, University of the Philippines at Los Ba?os, Laguna, Philippines;13. both the major authors were with The WorldFish Center during the preparation of this paper. Praduman Kumar, former professor, Division of Agricultural Economics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India;14. Somying Piumsombun, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative, Bangkok, Thailand;15. Muhammad Sirajul Haque, Department of Economics, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh;16. Luping Li, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;17. Alias Radam, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia;18. Athula Senaratne, formerly with the National Aquaculture Development Authority , Colombo, Sri Lanka;19. Nguyen Tri Khiem, Dean and Professor, Faculty of Economics, An Giang University, Vietnam;20. and Sonny Koeshendrajana, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Jakarta, Indonesia. |