1991 marked the last year of AQD's three-year program based on ADSEA I (Seminar-Workshop on Aquaculture Development in Southeast Asia. ADSEA I then planned the 1989-1991 research and training activities of the Department. Research on economically important food fishes in the region continued. Researchers were also formed into commodity teams to make research in each species coherent and unidirectional. Research was made more efficient with the operation of service laboratories, which also assist fishfarmers.