Community-based Fish Culture Project

Geogetown, Penang Malaysia

NGO / Public Service

The basic objective of the Community-based Fish Culture project is the testing of technical and institutional designs for fish culture on a collective basis in seasonally flooded areas, and irrigation systems. The stocking and harvesting of fish in communally managed flooded areas is the central focus of project activities, together with the establishment of community-based groups to manage fish culture and to distribute benefits from the fish harvest.