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Note
This is the last STREAM Journal that
we will be involved with as STREAM
Director and Communications Specialist,
as the time has come to move along to
the next of life’s experiences. It thus
gives us deep satisfaction to include in
SJ5(4), the first two articles which
reflect perhaps STREAM’s best examples
of working in collaboration with others
towards policy change that has a
potential impact on the livelihoods of
poor aquatic resources users and
managers: a piece by Kuddus Ansary on a
One-Stop Aqua Shop in India, and another
by Chun Sophat on the impacts of
fisheries policy reform on a particular
village in Cambodia.
In keeping with the SJ’s eclectic
nature, the other articles include the
third one by Nesar Ahmed on the
livelihoods of a riverine community in
Bangladesh, a fourth research-oriented
contribution from D Chakrabarty and S K
Das on fin fish community in India, a
fifth by Razia Sultana overviewing the
marine shrimp industry in Pakistan, and
a final piece by Jessica C Esmao
carrying some cautions from the
Philippines about possible disastrous
impacts of shrimp farming.
There have been five years of the
STREAM Journal so far. That’s 20 numbers
or 120 articles. Along with the many
authors who have worked with us, our
dear Communications Hub Managers and our
colleague Kath Copley, we’ve played a
small part in achieving one of the
purposes of the SJ: “to provide an
opportunity for seldom-raised voices to
be heard and represented in a
professional publication that is
practical yet somewhat academic.”
And it has been a joy to see each one
of the SJ numbers posted on the STREAM
website, printed and distributed around
Asia in Bahasa Indonesia, Bangla,
Burmese, Farsi, Hindi, Illongo, Khmer,
Mandarin, Nepali, Oriya, Sinhala, Urdu
and Vietnamese!
Happy reading!
Graham Haylor, STREAM Director
William Savage, STREAM Journal
Editor
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