The objective of the projects was to demonstrate the capabilities of GIS and remote sensing to address aquaculture and inland fisheries issues, mainly for strategic planning. Projects included assessments of coastal aquaculture potential in Costa Rica in cooperation with UNEP (Kapetsky, et.al. 1987), Malaysia (Kapetsky, 1989), and Sri Lanka (Meaden, 1999), and remote sensing was used to inventory shrimp farms, also in Sri Lanka (Travaglia, et al. 1999). Inland fish farming potential was assessed in Ghana in (Kapetsky et al. 1991; Kapetsky and MacPherson, 1990).

A continent-level assessment of inland fish farming potential was carried out for Africa (Kapetsky, 1994) along with an appraisal of the potential of aquaculture to contribute to food security (Kapetsky, 1995), and Africa was subsequently reassessed on the basis of improved data (Aguilar-Manjarrez and Nath, 1998). Latin America constituted another continental assessment (Kapetsky and Nath, 1997), and the Caribbean Island States (Kapetsky and Chakalall, 1998) and Southern Africa (Kapetsky, 1994) were assessed as regions.

Not all of the outputs dealt with aquaculture. The use of remote sensing to inventory small water bodies for community fishery development was assessed in Zimbabwe (Kapetsky, 1987). At global level an assessment was carried out to estimate the potential for inland fishery enhancements (Kapetsky, 1998), and GIS applications in inland fisheries were reviewed worldwide (Kapetsky, 2001).