Seaweed as a Pillar for Aquaculture and Food Security

By Dr. Abe Woo Sau Pinn, Annette Jaya Ram

May 2025 FEATURE
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MALAYSIA IS RANKED ninth on the list over the world’s biggest fish and seafood consumers per capita, way ahead of countries like China, or any neighbouring ASEAN countries. Given Malaysia’s cultural, economic and geographical connections to the sea, our unique position in a mega diverse marine biodiversity area has deeply rooted our diet to seafood. One surely cannot imagine Nasi Lemak without anchovies or Penang’s famous Char Koay Teow without blood cockles. However, I am very sure that this is...

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Dr. Abe Woo Sau Pinn

studies the biodiversity of marine invertebrates and their systematics. His research interests include ecology, diversity, systematics and taxonomy of echinoderms.

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Annette Jaya Ram

Dr. Annette Jaya Ram is a lecturer and deputy director of the Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies, USM. She is studying mariculture of mud crabs; currently working on best ways to culture them to reduce dependence on harvesting mud crabs from the wild.

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