Group Coordinator
Richard Lewis, QDPI, Southern Fisheries Centre, P.O. Box 76, Deception Bay, Qld 4508, Australia.
Production
Pacific Community, Fisheries Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems Division, Information Section, SPC, BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.
Produced with financial assistance from the Australian, France and New Zealand.
NOTE FROM THE CO-ORDINATOR
This issue of the Ciguatera Information Bulletin contains articles from colleagues in Japan, French Polynesia, Hawaii,
mainland France, New Caledonia and Australia.
T. Yasumoto summarises the recent rapid progress his group has made into the origin and chemistry of toxins involved in ciguatera and gives his vision for future directions in ciguatera research. A.M. Legrand outlines the ambitious research programme under her direction at the Louis Malardé Research Institute. From Hawaii, further results with the SPIA assay for ciguatera in fish are summarised by Y. Hokama, while P. Amade gives an update on ciguatera in New Caledonia.
An International Workshop on Ciguatera Management was recently convened at Bribie Island, Australia. This meeting highlighted the need to develop improved screening methods and recognised the lack of understanding of the precise factors responsible for flare-ups of ciguatera. I provide a summary of the major outcomes of this meeting.
We are accepting articles for the next issue of the Bulletin. Please send any articles related to ciguatera to me at the QDPI address for inclusion in the next issue.
Richard Lewis