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Here we post organizational updates, research, and more. You can scroll down to view our posts sorted by when they were posted, or click below on the tags that most interest you:
On Leaving FWI and Reflections Over The Last Six Years
Our co-founder, Tom Billington, has transitioned away from full-time work at FWI.
Thomas Billington
May 265 min read
Announcing the ARA’s M&E Plan and Public Dashboard
This post introduces the ARA’s monitoring and evaluation plan and public dashboard, detailing the program’s key metrics.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Mar 272 min read
Announcing the Selection of Foundational Research Pre-Slaughter Stunning Projects
This post announces the two external projects we are funding to conduct foundational research on pre-slaughter stunning in India.
Haven King-Nobles
Feb 203 min read
Our 2024 Year in Review
This post discusses the successes and challenges of FWI’s work in 2024. Specific highlights include our R&D studies and farm program growth.
Haven King-Nobles
Jan 2712 min read
An Update on our Work on Satellite-Based Remote Sensing
This post gives an update on our satellite imagery project, including challenges that have arisen with prior study results.
Paul Monaghan
Jan 104 min read
Culture Review: Q4 2024 Results
In line with our value of transparency, this post discusses the result of our most recent culture survey, conducted in October of 2024.
Thomas Billington
Jan 64 min read
Fourth Study of 2024: Developing a Welfare Assessment Protocol for Indian Major Carps
This post discusses our development of a protocol to more comprehensively understand the welfare of Indian major carps.
Haven King-Nobles
Dec 23, 20243 min read
Our Estimated Impact Surpassed 1 Million Fishes in 2024
FWI’s farm program has achieved its milestone of helping an estimated one million fishes in 2024.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Dec 23, 20243 min read
Project Updates From Our DVARA Partnership: Training & Handover
This post highlights the latest updates in our partnership with DVARA.
Abhishek Pandey
Dec 20, 20244 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.
Paul Monaghan
Dec 13, 20243 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.
Siddharth Solanki
Dec 13, 20242 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.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Nov 27, 20243 min read
Reflections on our Recent ACE Evaluation
This post discusses the decision by Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) to not recommend FWI in 2024.
Haven King-Nobles
Nov 26, 20244 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.
Siddharth Solanki
Nov 14, 20243 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.
Haven King-Nobles
Nov 14, 20248 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.
Haven King-Nobles
Oct 3, 20244 min read
Project Update: DVARA Partnership
In this post, we share our progress and future plans for our partnership project with DVARA.
Abhishek Pandey
Oct 1, 20243 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.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jul 17, 20243 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.
Paul Monaghan
Jul 10, 20245 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.
Paul Monaghan
Jun 29, 20244 min read
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