The seemingly inexhaustible oceans have proved to be finite after all. Landings of wild fish have leveled off since the mid-1980s, and many stocks of fish are fished so heavily that their future is threatened. And yet the ...

Partnership for Science-led Agriculture Annual Report compiled by ICAR covering the period of May 2018 to April 2019

Between February 1999 and December 2003 the WorldFish Center, Solomon Islands, carried out research on a new artisanal fishery based on the capture and rearing of presettlement coral reef fish (Hair et al. 2002). This work ...

This report details a summary of project activities implemented by country and spending against the total project budget. In twenty-one months into the Blue Economy Challenge two trials were completed in Bangladesh, one ...

USAID Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity Yr4 Q1 Progress Report (October-December 2020)

Participatory research was conducted with poorer farmers in two communities, Girai (G) and Bahagili (B) in NW Bangladesh to assess the production of Nile tilapia seed in irrigated spring rice-fields. All the selected ...

Using a state-of-the art computer model of global supply and demand for food and feed commodities, this book projects the likely changes in the fisheries sector over the next two decades. As prices for most food commodities ...

Selection for harvest weight was performed in a fully pedigreed synthetic line of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Egypt for two generations. Records were available over three spawning seasons (2002, 2003 and 2004) ...

WorldFish initiated a selective breeding program in Abbassa--Egypt to develop and produce the genetically improved Nile tilapia strain known as “Genetically Improved Abbassa Nile tilapia (GIANT)”, adopting the same technology ...

Myanmar's fisheries are among the most important globally but remain some of the least documented. The fisheries sector occupies an important place in Myanmar's economy and culture, and is set to change rapidly as the ...