The WLE 2018 Annual Report > Highlights from 2018

Focus on fisheries
The successful rebid for funding of our small-scale fisheries research in 2017 helped to increase the visibility of our small-scale fisheries work in 2018. This was supported by a substantive growth in partnerships, contributing to the capacity of young scientists, new funding opportunities, including a USD 1.5 million investment from the Oak Foundation, and a successful publications record that is increasing our science output. A WorldFish-led paper in Nature Climate Change provided a new approach to build and analyze adaptive capacity of coastal communities across five domains. The paper had the highest Altmetric attention score (284)—an indicator of how much and what type of attention a research output has received—of all our publications in 2018 and was widely shared across 11 news networks and 479 tweets.
Other top-scoring publications related to small-scale fisheries, with a strong showing for gender-oriented papers, included a paper on gender-transformative approaches to reduce inequality and postharvest fish losses. The paper built on earlier research on the gender-transformative approach, which we have been pioneering in fisheries and aquaculture since 2012.