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Fish Innovation Lab Resilience Brief: Highlights of Program Achievements and Recommendations
The Fish Innovation Lab has strengthened the resilience of key aspects of aquaculture and fishery systems in countries spanning Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria, to name a few. In the process, researchers, implementers, and communities have contributed specialized knowledge on what is needed to further strengthen resilience for the most vulnerable in varied contexts. This brief shares insights through cases and context-specific recommendations for the scaling and adoption of USAID-funded innovations in aquaculture and fisheries.
Funding Opportunity: Fish Innovation Lab Request for Applications
The Fish Innovation Lab is pleased to release a Request for Applications for research activities to promote food security through nutrient-rich aquatic foods. Concept notes are due May 15, 2024.
Tropical Fishery Nutrient Production Depends on Biomass-based Management
The Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability activity in Kenya has a new journal article in iScience. Overfishing drives lost nutrient production in the Western Indian Ocean artisanal fisheries, so tropical fishery management should focus on restoring biomass to achieve maximum yields and sustainability, particularly for herbivorous fishes. Read the full summary for more information.
Understanding Aquaculture Biosecurity to Improve Catfish Disease Management in Ogun and Delta States, Nigeria
The Improving Biosecurity activity has a journal article in Aquaculture. Read the abstract here to learn more about the existing biosecurity management practices and risk factors in Nigeria that could potentially lead to mortality in catfish production systems.
Lawrence Named MSU’s 2024 SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winner
Fish Innovation Lab Director Mark Lawrence receives prestigious SEC Faculty Achievement Award for outstanding teaching accomplishments and nationally and internationally recognized scholarship.
Challenges to Managing Fisheries with High Inter-Community Variability on the Kenya-Tanzania Border
The Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability activity in Kenya has a new journal article in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. The research team's objective was to better understand and suggest management that accounts for the challenges of managing shared common-pool resources among fishing villages along the Kenya-Tanzania national boundary.
No Longer Bugged by Feed Costs Team's Executive Summary
The No Longer Bugged by Feed Costs team relied on primary data collected from farmers in Nigeria, using a structured questionnaire to gather information about the farmers and their production practices as well as analyze costs of production, including feed costs, to assess whether and how insect farming could be integrated into the value chain. Read this executive summary to learn more.
Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability Team's Executive Summary
The Achieving Coral Reef Fishery Sustainability research team aimed to address challenges of suboptimal seafood production in a climate refugia in Kenya. Read the team's recommendations on how the community and fisheries management programs can be scaled for further uptake in this executive summary.
Cryogenic Sperm Banking Team's Executive Summary
Cryogenic sperm banking can be used to assist the government and private hatcheries to develop brood banks by protecting and providing quality germplasm of Indian major carps and exotic carps. Read the research team's executive summary to learn more and find their recommendations based off their findings.
Fish Before Irrigation: Maximizing Water Use for Fish and Crop Production
As water resources get tighter and irrigation solutions are seen as “modern, high technology” agriculture, aquaculturists are considering a first use of the water for aquaculture before irrigation. This post was written for Agrilinks by Karen Veverica, External Advisory Board member for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish and retired director of the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center at Auburn University.