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Image Alternative Text: Figure 1. A partial view of the Tanguar Haor wetland in Bangladesh.

Threatened Fish Genetic Resources and Biological Diversity of the Tanguar Haor Wetland in Bangladesh

Best Wetland Management Practices (BWMPs) and an improved Management Framework should be formulated and implemented earlier at Tanguar Haor wetland by the Government of Bangladesh. BWMPs are the only solution to protecting the wetland ecosystem from measurable destruction and declining of biological diversity related to valuable fisheries and other aquatic resources at Tanguar Haor wetland.

Image Alternative Text: A local fisherman moving for fishing with his puchnet and bamboo basket to Hakluki Haor Wetland

Building Resilience of Fishery and Aquaculture Systems

Mississippi State University and its partners, through the Feed the Future initiative, are developing new technologies and practices to improve the resilience of aquaculture and fishery systems to meet income and nutrition needs of vulnerable groups, especially women and young children.

Image Alternative Text: ASFs in Hominin Diets

The Shore-Based Diet: Fish in Hominin Evolution

Why does the fish story from our evolutionary past matter today? It is important because some populations around the world have lost access to the shore-based diets or similar nutrient rich animal foods with serious consequences for their health and survival.

Image Alternative Text: BOILED DRY MILONGE (CATFISH)

Nutritional Benefits of Boiled Dry Milonge (Catfish), Recipe from Zambia

by Lora Iannotti

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Florence Malama has joined the FishFirst! Zambia Team

Florence Malama has joined the FishFirst! Zambia team and will be working in-country to implement surveys at Lake Kariba.

Image Alternative Text: Hussain at field visit

Meet the Asia Regional Coordinator: Md. Gulam Hussain

"I strongly wish that all people in a society should know and be aware about eating more fish, which have enough nutrition benefit to keep their health well and boost up the body immunity to fight against all type of diseases, including novel coronavirus we are currently experiencing as a pandemic."

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Fish Innovation Lab Awards Additional Project in Kenya

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish (Fish Innovation Lab) at Mississippi State University (MSU) has awarded approximately $500,000 to a new project aimed at helping solve hunger and improve ecosystems in coastal Kenya.

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New Covid-19 Private Sector Engagement & Partnership Fund

Image Alternative Text: Mr. Rajob Ali (center) catching fish at his farm, submitted by Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Bangladesh Agricultural University

Aquaculture Opens Doors and Improves Livelihoods for Youth in Bangladesh

Rajob Ali started working as a farm manager at his father’s small-scale rice farm and now owns an aquaculture farm in Fulpur upazila under Mymensingh district of Bangladesh.

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The Aquaculture Postharvest Value Chain in Nigeria

The project enhanced understanding of postharvest aquaculture value chain, postharvest losses along aquaculture value chains, characteristics of aquaculture production systems in Nigeria, aquaculture contributions to rural livelihoods and household incomes, the role of women in aquaculture, and the way forward for the aquaculture postharvest sector in Nigeria.