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Project Updates From Our DVARA Partnership: Training & Handover

Abhishek Pandey

12 hours ago4 min read

Project Updates From Our DVARA Partnership: Training & Handover

This post highlights the latest updates in our partnership with DVARA.

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Announcing FWI’s Innovation Challenge: Remote-Sensing Water Quality with Satellites

Paul Monaghan

7 days ago3 min read

Announcing FWI’s Innovation Challenge: Remote-Sensing Water Quality with Satellites

We are launching an Innovation Challenge to develop remote-sensing technology and help us with cost-effectively scaling our programming.

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Latest Water Quality Data Update: July 2023 to October 2024

Siddharth Solanki

7 days ago2 min read

Latest Water Quality Data Update: July 2023 to October 2024

This post introduces the latest updates to the ARA dataset, now including water quality data collected from July 2023 to October 2024.

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ARA Program Updates: Investigating our Theory of Change

Jennifer-Justine Kirsch

Nov 273 min read

ARA Program Updates: Investigating our Theory of Change

We discuss the tactical adjustments we have made to strengthen our ARA Program's theory of change.

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Reflections on our Recent ACE Evaluation

Haven King-Nobles

Nov 264 min read

Reflections on our Recent ACE Evaluation

This post discusses the decision by Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) to not recommend FWI in 2024.

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Our Recent Support of the World Conference on Farm Animal Welfare

Siddharth Solanki

Nov 143 min read

Our Recent Support of the World Conference on Farm Animal Welfare

We recently contributed to the annual World Conference on Farm Animal Welfare in China.

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Recent Strategy Updates: Our 2026 Goal, and Plans for 2025

Haven King-Nobles

Nov 148 min read

Recent Strategy Updates: Our 2026 Goal, and Plans for 2025

This post discusses our plans for the next two years, as well as updates to our strategic thinking.

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Announcing FWI’s New Stunning Initiative in India

Haven King-Nobles

Oct 34 min read

Announcing FWI’s New Stunning Initiative in India

We are launching a multi-phase project aimed at introducing and scaling pre-slaughter stunning for farmed fishes in India.

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Abhishek Pandey

Oct 13 min read

Project Update: DVARA Partnership

In this post, we share our progress and future plans for our partnership project with DVARA.

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Jennifer-Justine Kirsch

Jul 173 min read

The ARA Is Expanding to a New Region

Our farm program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture is adding farmers in a new region to expand our reach and help more fishes.

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Third R&D Study of 2024: Dissolved Oxygen Tolerance Assessment

Paul Monaghan

Jul 105 min read

Third R&D Study of 2024: Dissolved Oxygen Tolerance Assessment

This post discusses our newly-launched field study to assess what levels of dissolved oxygen and ammonia Indian major carps can tolerate.

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Second R&D Study of 2024: Feed Fortification

Paul Monaghan

Jun 294 min read

Second R&D Study of 2024: Feed Fortification

We recently launched a new study to assess the impact and viability of feed fortification as a welfare intervention.

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Paul Monaghan

Jun 194 min read

Satellite Imagery Study Findings

In February, we conducted a study to evaluate the use of satellite imagery to predict water quality remotely. This post shares our findings.

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ARA Program Updates: Adjusted Visit Frequency, Improved Measurement System, and Tentative Oxygen Findings

Jennifer-Justine Kirsch

Jun 164 min read

ARA Program Updates: Adjusted Visit Frequency, Improved Measurement System, and Tentative Oxygen Findings

We have improved essential processes in our farmer program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture.

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Livelihood Organizations as a Scaling Mechanism and our Ongoing Project with DVARA

Abhishek Pandey

Jun 144 min read

Livelihood Organizations as a Scaling Mechanism and our Ongoing Project with DVARA

This post discusses a) the scaling potential of collaborating with livelihood organizations in India, and b) FWI's project with DVARA.

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Results from our Latest Culture Surveys (April 2023 – January 2024)

Thomas Billington

Apr 125 min read

Results from our Latest Culture Surveys (April 2023 – January 2024)

This post shares the results from FWI's culture surveys conducted in April 2023, July 2023, and January 2024.

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Paul Monaghan

Mar 266 min read

Overview of our 2024 R&D Studies

This post discusses Fish Welfare Initiative's planned R&D studies for improving fish welfare in India in 2024.

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First R&D Study of 2024: Validating Satellite Imagery to Detect Poor Water Quality

Paul Monaghan

Feb 194 min read

First R&D Study of 2024: Validating Satellite Imagery to Detect Poor Water Quality

FWI is launching a study to assess the accuracy and reliability of satellite imagery to remotely detect water quality issues.

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Fish Welfare Initiative's 2023 in Review

Haven King-Nobles

Jan 258 min read

Fish Welfare Initiative's 2023 in Review

This post discusses our key outcomes and challenges from 2023.

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When Things Go Wrong: Addressing a Flaw in our Stocking Density Monitoring

Haven King-Nobles

Jan 172 min read

When Things Go Wrong: Addressing a Flaw in our Stocking Density Monitoring

This short post discusses how we identified and corrected an issue in our stocking density monitoring.

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