Held Mar. 18-20, 1982. "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technical and economic overview of aquaculture -- Progress and problems with recirculating system aquaculture -- Application of recombinant DNA technology to the domestication of marine plants -- Potentials in aquaculture -- Aquabusiness -- Biotechnology: a potential U.S. contribution to mariculture -- Organic chemicals from marine sources -- Genetic engineering approaches in biotechnology -- Genetic modification in seaweeds: applications to commercial utilization and cultivation -- Chitosan as a biomaterial -- Marine algae and their role in biotechnology -- Isolation and identification of provitamin D sub(2) and previtamin D sub(2) -- The isolation of labile proteins from marine sources by immobilized monoclonal antibodies -- Shark cartilage contains an inhibitor of tumour neovascularization -- Microbial ecology of biofouling -- An approach for studying the molecular basis of marine microbial fouling -- Biofouling in freshwater cooling systems -- Biotechnology and environmental pollution -- Treatment technologies for the removal of biochemical oxygen demand.