WorldFish Center
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The WorldFish Center (originally International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management or ICLARM) is an international research center specializing in fisheries and related aquatic resources. Its mission is to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture and improving livelihoods of the 200 million employed in fishing and related activities worldwide.
ICLARM started as a program of the University of Hawaii in 1975, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, and it was incorporated in the Philippines in 1977. It is one of the 15 specialized research centers – the "Future Harvest Centers" – of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The name was changed to the WorldFish Center in order to illustrate a greater development orientation to supporting research, development projects and capacity-building related to fisheries and aquaculture more generally.
Its headquarters is in Penang, Malaysia and it has offices or research centers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Egypt, Malawi, New Caledonia, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands.
The center is a key sponsor of FishBase.
