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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:
ARA Data Release: June 2021 to January 2026
We've published our most comprehensive ARA dataset to date—covering water quality, stocking and harvest, enrolled ponds, and dropout data from June 2021 through January 2026.
Haven King-Nobles
13 hours ago3 min read
Outcome Evaluation Initial Results: Why We Are Repeating the Study
This post discusses our inconclusive outcome evaluation results and plans for repeating the study in 2026.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
6 days ago3 min read
Updates to Our Impact Estimation Process
After two years of data collection, we have changed how we estimate our impact to strengthen our process.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Dec 31, 20253 min read
How FWI Calculates Cost-Effectiveness
A deep dive into the process behind our cost-effectiveness numbers and the values guiding this process.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Dec 23, 20252 min read
Changes in our Ammonia Measurement Protocols
We changed the way in which we measure ammonia to more accurately determine when fish welfare is affected.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Aug 27, 20253 min read
Monitoring and Evaluation Report of our Farm Program — July 2025
We recently published a report of our farm program’s M&E data for the first half of 2025.
Haven King-Nobles
Aug 1, 20253 min read
New Study: Outcome Evaluation of Our Water Quality Improvements
We are initiating an outcome evaluation for the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture to test whether the program’s corrective actions improve water quality.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
May 30, 20253 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 27, 20252 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
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
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
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.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jun 16, 20244 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.
Haven King-Nobles
Jan 17, 20242 min read
Over 100 Farms Committed to Fish Welfare
We now have over 100 fish farms actively engaging with us to improve the welfare of their fishes!
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jan 10, 20242 min read
Our Updated Water Quality Data Since 2021
We publish water quality and welfare data from ~100 farms, from the program’s inception in June 2021 up until June 2023.
Haven King-Nobles
Nov 18, 20232 min read
Our Vision for Helping Hundreds of Millions of Fishes
Our farmer work has helped over 1 million fishes and we want to help more. This blog post discusses how we envision scaling our program.
Jennifer-Justine Kirsch
Jul 2, 20234 min read
Recent Strategy Changes: Investing More in Farmer-Centric Work
Read about about our revised theory of change in this post. Over coming years, we expect to be scaling direct farmer work for better impact.
Haven King-Nobles
Mar 3, 20234 min read
FWI's Full First Year of Measurement Data
See FWI's water quality and other measurement data here.
Haven King-Nobles
Sep 28, 20222 min read
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