In September 2000, a COMPASS, Community Partnerships for Sustainable
Resource Management Project grant was awarded to a youth NGO to assist
a community in Zomba District establish fish ponds and stock them with
fish suitable for local markets. The community soon realized that they
could manage their activities without the supervision of the NGO. For
the past six months they have administered and implemented the project
themselves.
The first harvest netted about 200 pounds of fish of which most were
sold locally. Even more significantly, following the example set by
the Kalino group, several other groups and individuals in the vicinity
have started excavating fish ponds and they are doing this on their
own initiative and in the absence of outside funding.
Community-based aquaculture at Kalino Village
