The World Fish Center, in collaboration with the GOB and USAID, has been implementing the FtF Aquaculture Project since October 2011 with a view to meet the government and FtF goals to sustainably reduce poverty and hunger. The project is funded by the USAID FtF initiative and covers a 5-year intervention in aquaculture focused on 20 southern districts in of the country. The project has four major objectives: (a) dissemination of improved quality fish and shrimp seed, (b) improving the nutrition and income status of farm households, (c) increasing investment, employment and fish production through commercial aquaculture, and (d) policy and regulatory reform and institutional capacity building to support sustainable aquaculture growth.