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The role of farmed fish in the diets of the resource-poor in Egypt
Type: Report
The Egyptian aquaculture industry provides more than 100,000 full-time or part-time jobs and produces the country's least-expensive farmed animal protein. Thus, aquaculture plays an important role in both sustaining ...
Baseline study: nutritional status, food security and fish consumption among people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia: summary
Type: Brief
Under the regional programme Fisheries and HIV/AIDS in Africa, the University of Zambia, in collaboration with the WorldFish Center, has undertaken a baseline survey of the nutritional status and fish consumption of people ...
The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh
Type: Working Paper
Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHOs threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic ...
First Round Technical Report on Fish Catch and Bio-diversity under HFMLIP - JICA
Type: Working Paper
The Haor Flood Management and Livelihood Improvement Project (HFMLIP) has been implementing by LGED in five haor basin districts namely Kishoreganj, Netrokona, Sunamganj, Habiganj and Brahmanbaria. The project is implementing ...
Developing a methodology for standardized fish monitoring in the Mekong Basin
Type: Report
This report details the methodology developed and tested with three universities in the region for the standardized monitoring of fish resources basinwide.
Non-farmed fish contribute to greater micronutrient intakes than farmed fish: results from an intra-household survey in rural Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Fish is the most important animal-source food (ASF) in Bangladesh, produced from capture fisheries (non-farmed) and aquaculture (farmed) sub-sectors. Large differences in micronutrient content of fish species from these ...
Dietary diversity determinants and contribution of fish to maternal and underfive nutritional status in Zambia
Type: Journal Article
This study examines socio-economic determinants of food consumption patterns amongst women of reproductive age and children aged 6–59 months from urban poor settlements of Lusaka and their implications for nutritional ...
Are trunk lateral line anomalies and disoriented scale patterns in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) influenced by genetics?
Type: Journal Article
Different kinds of defects are observed on farmed fish, and while a lot of research has concentrated on skeletal abnormalities, little is known on scale anomalies. In this paper, a survey for lateral line shape anomalies ...
Value chain analysis of the Egyptian aquaculture feed industry
Type: Report
The commercial aquaculture feed industry in Egypt is growing at a rapid rate. As a result, the number of fish feed mills has increased from just 5 mills producing about 20,000 t per year in 1999, to over 60 mills with a ...
Fish availability and marketing system at local markets of a coastal district, Southern Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Fish biodiversity is important for the future sustainability of aquatic resources in Bangladesh. However, stresses due to overfishing, climate change, habitat loss, eutrophication and pollution pose threats to fish ...