Harnessing Aquatic Foods for Healthy People, Healthy Planet, and Shared Prosperity

 
Aquatic Food Biosciences
 
Sustainable Aquatic Food Systems
 

Big Splashes Over Five Years, 2020–2025

Global Impact from WorldFish Research and Innovations

 

people, including women and children, nourished adequately with aquatic foods integrated in their diets

 

 

women and people from other marginalized groups empowered with greater access to resources, markets, and decision-making in the fisheries and aquaculture sector

 

 

households increased their incomes through increased sustainable production of aquatic foods​

 

 

 

hectares restored through sustainable/ improved management of natural resources​

 

 

MT of fish, seaweed, and other aquatic foods produced with reduced greenhouse gas emissions and greater resource efficiency​

 

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The Latest

Stay up-to-date with the latest news and developments in research and innovations across aquatic food systems.

A Fish for the Future: How the Abbassa Tilapia Strain Provides an Aquaculture Solution for Arid Region

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Delivery of 10,000 mixed-sex Abbassa strain tilapia fingerlings to the Applied Research Centre hatchery in Matrouh. Photo: Ashraf Khairy/WorldFish.The arid coastal…

Climate and Environmental Sustainability, Social and Economic Inclusion • 12 Nov 2025

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Community-Led Advocacy: Engaging Local Governments and Partners for Successful Fish-Based Nutrition Pilots in Assam

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Under the Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (APART), WorldFish has spearheaded innovative, community-focused interventions to promote fish-based…

Nutrition and Public Health • 06 Nov 2025

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Grappling with Diversity in Small-Scale Fisheries

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Small-scale fisheries feed millions and employ more than 60 million people worldwide. Yet they’re often treated as a single uniform group, when in reality, they’re as…

Nutrition and Public Health, Climate and Environmental Sustainability, Social and Economic Inclusion • 31 Oct 2025

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Big Facts on Aquatic Foods

600

million number of people around the world who depend on small-scale fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods.

204

million tons - the volume of aquatic food production by 2030.

60

million - number of people engaged in the primary sector of fisheries and aquaculture in 2018.

24

trillion - the value of the ocean economy, including fisheries, shipping lanes and tourism.