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PrefaceWe are moving into a turbulent and an uncertain era, particularly in respect of thefuture food needs. Given the push to sustainability, the rise in food prices, and theimpending concerns around climate change and related complexity on providingthe food needs for an increasing global population, it is time to address copingstrategies. It is in this context that the issue on where will aquaculture developmentmove in the future is taken up. It is our belief that one of the best options availablein this regard is to address what we can learn from “success,” and consequently,what types of lessons learned are likely to be most useful in guiding future aquaculturedevelopment?We feel that the past successes of Asian aquaculture, which is the main driver inglobal aquaculture developments in the last three to four decades, have a great dealto contribute towards guiding its future development. Equally, we have also consideredand discussed “failure” as an important learning tool, and in this book, we havesought to incorporate some of those lessons learned into this thinking as well.Overall, we felt that the flag of success was the more positive banner under whichto develop this work, so we have purposefully chosen to use success as our mainfocus. In the following sections, we seek to explore this thinking in more detailaround the meaning of success, its various audiences, some history, and the evolutionof these aquatic resources systems around more to social change and outcome/impact-based thinking.Success, ofcourse, can have many definitions. Success may refer to the achievementof one’s aim or goal and financial profitability (business ); a person whoachieves his or her goals or a level of social status, achievement of an objective/goal, or the opposite of failure.However one chooses to define success, we feel that aquaculture has demonstratedincreasing instances of success, but to the best of our knowledge, fewauthors have looked at these in any detail, and if done, those are in isolation only.Initially we seek to introduce the reader to how this work originated, what were themain issues guiding our thinking, and finally some thoughts on where we see thiswork proceeding. In the introductory section, we have tried to set the stage forthe ideas and results that will follow. For instance, we outline the evolutionof aquaculture and seek to position this under a set of key drivers includingthe environmental, changed and changing public perceptions, and moves tovii