INTRODUCTION
This chapter celebrates the author's long association with Daniel Pauly, as a colleague in the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) from 1979 to 1999, and as a firm friend and collaborator in aquatic science thereafter. Daniel's prolific contributions to fisheries science have included many that pertain, directly or indirectly, to aquaculture. Growth and reproduction of all fish, wild and farmed, are determined by the same natural laws and this has provided perfect “Pauly territory” for fundamental research and development of new methods.
Daniel and his many collaborators and disciples have also taken concepts and methods developed for capture fisheries management and ecology and have adapted and/or applied them to important areas in aquaculture research and development, for example, fish egg development (Pauly and Pullin, 1988, 1997), food consumption of fishes (Palomares and Pauly, 1996), growth of farmed fish (Pauly and Hopkins, 1983; Hopkins et al., 1988; Pauly et al., 1988; Mair and Pauly, 1993; Prein et al., 1993; Prein and Pauly, 1993; Van Dam and Pauly, 1995; Moreau and Pauly, 1999), industrial fisheries that provide ingredients for fish feeds (Pauly and Tsukayama, 1987; Pauly et al., 1989; Pauly et al., 2005); invasive alien species (Pullin et al., 1997), mortality estimations (Hopkins and Pauly, 1993), predator–prey relationships (Hopkins et al., 1982), tilapia biology and farming (Peters, 1983; Pullin et al., 1996) and trophic modeling (Lightfoot et al., 1993; Ruddle and Christensen, 1993; Van Dam et al., 1993).