It maybe beyond the ken of ordinary folks, but the results of biotechnology are touching daily lives and making it better. New trains of larger tomatoes with longer shelf-life, high yielding varieties of rice with shorter cultivation period, or your favorite fish sauce or patis, to perk-up the taste of food are mundane examples that are seen everyday in your friendly neighborhood public market or talipapa. Seafood's are major export commodity for many countries in the Asian region and thus a valuable source of foreign exchange. The increasing demand for seafood has led to the over-exploitation of wild fish stocks in some regions of the world and has resulted in reduced catch for fisherman.

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