ICLARM launched the Network of Tropical Aquaculture Scientists (NTAS) in July 1987 as an information network for individual scientists working on tropical aquaculture; especially those engaged on genetics, integrated agriculture-aquaculture farming systems and coastal aquaculture of tropical molluscs. Research scientists whose major work are in these fields are invited to join the Network. The NTAS provides a mechanism for exchange of research results and ideas among its members through correspondence and through its newsletter, Aquabyte: formerly a separate publication and incorporated in Naga, the ICLARM Quarterly from 1992.