Workers of Zampen Marine Aqua Venture check on grouper fingerlings stocked in floating fish cages in Baliangao, Misamis Oriental. Under its Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries Effort (SAFE), USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program provided Zampen Marine with training on sustainable fish-farming, and linked it with a Zamboanga Sibugay-based buyer which will purchase the high-value grouper for the export market once these have grown to marketable size. Since 2008, the GEM Program has helped approximately 800 growers, mostly in the Zamboanga peninsula and the island-provinces of the Sulu Archipelago, to source and stock more than 320,000 grouper juveniles. The GEM Program is implemented under the oversight of the Mindanao Development Authority. GEM