 As a hub for the fisheries industry, Batu Maung contains the headquarters of WorldFish Center, an international, non-profit fisheries research organisation, as well as the Fisheries Research Institute of Malaysia's Fisheries Development Authority.Plans have been mooted by the Malaysian federal government to develop Batu Maung into an international tuna fishing port.However, the construction of the tuna port eventually stalled in 2011 and has never been completed to this day.