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Opportunities to Strengthen Fish Supply Chain Policy to Improve External Food Environments for Nutrition in the Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Malnutrition and food insecurity have significant social and economic impacts in small island developing states, such as the Solomon Islands. Enhancing the domestic supply of fish, the main source of local protein, can ...
Inclusion of small indigenous fish improves nutritional quality during the first 1000 days
Type: Journal Article
Key contributing factors to undernutrition in low-income countries, including Bangladesh, are low dietary diversity in the diets of women and low nutrient density of traditional complementary foods (CFs) for infants and ...
Salinity tolerance of the tilapias Oreochromis aureus, O. niloticus and an O. mossambicus X O. niloticus hybrid
Type: Report
Studies ontogenetic changes in salinity tolerance in tilapias spawned and reared in freshwater using the indices of median lethal salinity, mean survival time and median survival time. Discusses implications of findings ...
WFP_WorldFish Horticulture and Fish-based Livelihoods and Self-Reliance for Enhanced Food Security & Nutrition: Project Completion Report _November 2018 to April 2019
Type: Donor Report
Project Completion report of World Food Program
Perspectives from Agriculture: Advances in livestock breeding-Implications for aquaculture genetics
Type: Journal Article
In this paper we present livestock breeding developments that could be taken into consideration in the genetic improvement of farmed aquaculture species, especially in freshwater fish. Firstly, the current breeding objective ...
Investing in Africa: the WorldFish Center's African strategy in summary
Type: Journal Article
Across much of Africa, freshwater and coastal fisheries provide an important source of food and livelihood for many millions of people. In addition, the aquaculture potential of the continent has only recently begun to be ...
Mother hilsa conservation messages
Type: Poster
This poster is the part of the awareness program for mother hilsa conservation in the pick breeding period. It has described fishing pan period, specific areas of hilsa breedings, rules and regulation taken for illegal ...
Strengthening the resilience of small-scale fisheries: A modeling approach to explore the use of in-shore pelagic resources in Melanesia
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries play a critical role in both poverty alleviation and food security. A large proportion of the world fish stocks are, however, getting fully or over-exploited. In this article we address these issues ...
Strategies for the sustainability of online open-access biodiversity databases
Type: Journal Article
Scientists should ensure that high quality research information is readily available on the Internet so society is not dependant on less authoritative sources. Many scientific projects and initiatives publish information ...
Proceedings of a Workshop on the Development of a Genetic Improvement Program for African Catfish Clarias gariepinus
Type: Conference Proceedings
This proceedings include papers present at the workshop held from 5 to 9th Nov 2007 in Accra, Ghana. The areas cover 1)the present state of the catfish industry in Africa 2)Catfish reproductive management and grow out ...