Successes in Asia, Africa, the South Pacific, and Latin America, as well as intensive linkages with fishery and aquaculture research institutions worldwide, testify to the increasingly global and international nature of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) and its programs, according to the Center's 1987 annual report. The bulk of the report details achievements in two areas - aquatic resource assessment and management, and aquaculture - with emphasis on summaries of projects (eight in the first area, nine in the second); information on future plans, advisory services, and papers and reports published is also provided. Treated more briefly are ICLARM's efforts in information, education and training, and the social sciences. ICLARM's successes, it is pointed out, have placed it on the horns of a dilemma: whether to continue to pursue its basic research in areas of broad international concern solely by collaborating with national institutions, or to develop new, centralized facilities of its own. While the latter seems the logical option, it would represent a change in ICLARM's research strategy, which has always included components of institutional cooperation and development of national expertise.