Daniel Jamu Daniel is the Deputy Chief of Party (Programs) for a USAID-funded Fisheries Integration of Society and Habitats (FISH) project that is implemented in Malawi’s four freshwater lake ecosystems of Lakes Malawi, Malombe, Chiuta, Chilwa and upper and middle Shire River in Malawi. He is an Aquaculture Systems Expert and Ecosystem Ecologist and has over 25 years’ experience working in the development field in Southern and Eastern Africa. He has been involved in aquatic ecosystem research since 1990. From 1999 to 2012 he worked with the WorldFish Center in research and management positions. His aquatic ecosystem ecology research focused on interactions between catchment processes and fisheries production and climate change adaptation in the Lake Chilwa basin. Since 2015, he has been working with the Coastal Resources Center of the University of Rhode Island, USA where he is responsible for program management of the FISH project whose primary objectives are to increase resiliency to climate change and improve biodiversity conservation through effective sustainable fisheries co-management of Malawi’s four freshwater lake ecosystems. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Fisheries Animal and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Rhode Island.
Daniel has led and overseen numerous national and regional aquaculture development and fisheries projects funded by various development partners including USAID, OPEC International Fund for Development and Norway. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed and technical papers, four book chapters on aquaculture technologies, interactions between terrestrial ecosystem process and fish production. Recently, his work has also focused on climate change adaptation in freshwater fisheries, mitigation of environmental and fishing threats to sustainability of freshwater aquatic genetic resources, fisheries ecosystem and community resilience monitoring of climate change impacts and development technologies for fish processing. He has also served on various boards and committees (board member of the Malawi National Commission for Science and Technology (2010-2014); member of the Steering Committee of the NEPAD Fish for All summit (2004-2005); Thematic team member for FAO/GSI Joint Workshop on “Reducing Feed Conversion Ratios in the Global Aquaculture to reduce carbon and other footprints and increase efficiency (2016).
He is currently Associate Editor (Aquatic Ecology) and Member of the Editorial Board, African Journal of Ecology); member of the Committee of Inland Fisheries (COFI) advisory working group on aquatic genetic resources and technologies (2015-present); and member of the Regional Aquaculture Advisory Board for the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources Regional PhD Program in Aquaculture and Fisheries Management.