In Asia, the fisheries sector is important in terms of food security, livelihoods and foreign exchange earnings. However, as in many parts of the world, there are signs that capture fisheries are fully exploited or overfished. Management of fisheries in the region is often hampered by lack of...

This article discusses difference between the newly released Compleat ELEFAN Software Packag (Vers. 1.1) (Gayanilo and Pauly 1989, Fishbyte 7(2): 20-21) and its predecessor (Vers 1.0). Also, a number of "bugs" found in Version 1.1 are documented; this led to releaase 1.11 which costs US$75.