WorldFish Center - WorldFish Research

WorldFish Research

WorldFish expertise in Policy Economics and Social Sciences, Natural Resource Management and Aquaculture and Genetic Improvement work together to provide a wide range of research and analysis to meet complex challenges like these.

• Policy Economics and Social Science division focuses on social and economic analysis of the aquaculture and fisheries sectors; connecting the fisheries and aquaculture sector to poverty reduction initiatives at local to global scales; policy and institutional analysis for the improved governance of aquatic resources; assessing the potential impacts of climate change on fisheries and adaptive measures that can be taken; and human health consequences of fisheries, reducing risks, and fisheries options that benefit health-impaired populations (HIV/AIDS and malaria). WorldFish also works with communities to manage their fisheries.

• The Natural Resources division produces integrated assessment and management technologies for small-scale fisheries, designs and manages global information systems on aquatic resources(FishBase, ReefBase), studies post-disaster livelihood recovery in fisheries-dependent regions, assesses impacts of built structures on aquatic resources in river basins and analyses external drivers such as climate change on livelihoods of fishery-dependent households.

• The Aquaculture and Genetic Improvement division is dedicated to developing methods for breeding improved fish strains for aquaculture; aquaculture technologies for the poor, including women and the landless; integrating aquaculture with terrestrial small-scale agriculture; developing strategies and options for aquaculture production and national action plans; connecting small-scale producers to markets and developing technologies that improve water productivity while protecting environmental flows.