Start with the
living environment.
Explore water quality and pond management as parts of thoughtful fish farming.
01 / OUR APPROACH
Care is a
connected practice.
Fish Welfare brings a fresh lens to ACDF’s work with smallholder fish farming: the pond, the household and the land belong in the same conversation.
PROJECT FISH / ACDF FIELD ARCHIVERooted in ACDF
Practical ideas.
Community at the centre.
FISH stands for Fisheries Innovation & Skills for Households. ACDF describes an approach built around earthen micro-ponds on smallholder agricultural land, drawing on the Indus Basin irrigation system.
Farmer learning connects pond planning, hatchery visits, water monitoring, feeding and sampling. The ambition is to bring fish farming into everyday agriculture, supporting household nutrition and livelihoods.
Read ACDF’s programme page ↗Start with the
Knowledge grows
through practice.
ACDF’s field archive follows training from classroom discussions to pond visits and sampling.
Connect the pond
to the land.
The programme describes using pond water for adjoining crops, linking aquaculture with the farm around it.
Introducing Happy Fish
Better questions.
More informed decisions.
ACDF describes Happy Fish as a pond management initiative focused on daily records, water monitoring, feeding and field reporting. Explore the organisation’s overview and contact its team about current availability.
Explore Happy Fish ↗A shared future