Global Challenge of Marine Biotechnology: A Status Report on the United States, Japan, Australia and Norway FROM THE PUBLISHER
This report addresses the emerging science and developing technologies encompassed by marine biotechnology. It contains a broad overview of marine biotechnology, sets forth industrial realities, and assesses the future potential of this new field of biotechnology.
The report has eight chapters. The first contains a wide range of major scientific achievements in marine biotechnology. The subject encompassed within marine biotechnology are grouped within six areas: aquaculture, marine animal health, marine natural health, marine natural products, biofilm and bioadhesion in the marine environment, bioremediation, and marine ecology and biological oceanography. the remaining chapters detail an extensively survey and status report on marine biotechnology in the United States, Japan, Australia, and Norway.