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Image Alternative Text: Miniver Kampamba, one of the female fish farmers, is directing the research team to one of her cages that was experiencing fish mortalities.

Fish Disease Investigation Increases Disease Awareness Among Small-Scale Fish Farmers

Miniver Kampamba, a young, female farmer in Zambia, experienced severe fish loss, which she suspected was due to disease. To address these challenges for fish farmers like Kampamba, the Development and Investigation of the Delivery Mode of a Multivalent Bacterial Fish Vaccine team from the University of Zambia embarked on research to develop a local fish vaccine, which may improve productivity by reducing mortalities for fish farmers.

Image Alternative Text: Here, a training facilitator is demonstrating how to make fish-frying batter.

Fish Processors in Nigeria Apply New Skills From Training to Improve Their Products and Businesses

The Nourishing Nations activity led a training during December 2022 to further fish processors' skills to become more profitable and provide Nigerians with nutritious fish. The 75 fish processors (54 women and 21 men) from three senatorial zones in Delta State, Nigeria, learned about entrepreneurship, access to financial space and funding for fish, fish business plan development, cooperative societies, fish handling techniques such as traditional and modern fish smoking and drying techniques, fish value addition, and fish packaging techniques.

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Meet the Resilience Specialist: Joanna Springer

Meet Joanna Springer, the Fish Innovation Lab's Resilience Specialist. "In my work with the lab, I am always thinking about how activities are fitting into an overall system with many players and actors who have different levels of influence, power, and access."

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The Fish Innovation Lab Held an Aquaculture America 2023 Session and Booth in New Orleans

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish hosted a session titled “Fish to Feed the World: Advancing Sustainable Solutions for Global Food Security” at the World Aquaculture Society, Aquaculture America Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 26, 2023. Click to read more and see the gallery from the conference's activities.

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Fish Innovation Lab Mourns the Loss of Professor Dr. Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain, Bangladesh Agricultural University

The Fish Innovation Lab is saddened to announce that Dr. Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain, who was the Bangladesh co-principal investigator of the Advancing Aquaculture Systems Productivity Through Carp Genetic Improvement activity, passed away from a heart attack on January 29, 2023.

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Crab Farming for Women in Bangladesh

The crab sector has provided a variety of economic possibilities for the coastal poor and marginalized women who were working as non-waged laborers. Women are involved in crab farming in a variety of ways, but the Covid-19 pandemic negatively impacted the market for all crab farmers. Read how crab farming in Bangladesh could further serve as a hedge for women against poverty and provide them with access to the market, food, health services, and education as the market improves in the wake of the pandemic.

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Meet the Marketing and Communications Manager: Laura Zseleczky

Meet Laura Zseleczky, the Fish Innovation Lab's Marketing and Communications Manager. "Sustainable approaches to aquaculture and fisheries development are just a piece of the puzzle, but they offer tremendous potential to address food and nutrition security challenges at local, regional, and global levels."

Image Alternative Text: Here, fishers are doing a biomass stock assessment training at Wasini Island, Kenya, by diving underwater to assess the fishery. (Photo by Remy Oddenyo, WCS)

Increasing Knowledge of Fisheries Status Through Community Stock Assessment Training

In Kenya, one activity is especially focused on maintaining a sustainable fishery. One way the Achieving Fisheries Sustainability in a Climate Sanctuary activity is accomplishing this is through stock assessment training to estimate fish stock biomass to more clearly see the differences in fish biodiversity and biomass in different fisheries management zones.

Image Alternative Text: Betty Muleya speaking during the nutrition training in Siavonga

A Community Health Worker Becomes a Fishfirst! Zambia Champion and Local Catalyst for Change

Betty Muleya, a community health worker in Sinazongwe District of Zambia, took an active role in the FishFirst! Zambia activities and has been a local advocate, spreading the word about the benefits of fish consumption for mothers and children and ways to incorporate this healthy food into one's diet.

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Genetically Improved Aquaculture Species in Bangladesh: Advances and Challenges

This chapter from Frontiers in Aquaculture Biotechnology reviews the genetically improved fish in Bangladesh, highlights the advances and challenges, and touches on their impact on aquaculture production in the country. Click the link above to read the introduction and find a link to the full publication.