Overall objective of this project is to increase the contribution from the sustainable use of marine resouces to the poverty alleviation in Pacific ACPs. The project will contribute to this objective through a focus on the sustainable development of highly migratory oceanic living resources, particularly tuna fisheries.
The purpose of the intervention is to contribute to the establishment of a concerted policy and economic environment conductive to the further development of Pacific ACPs owned fishing and processing operations and to an increased contribution of foreign fleets to the economic develpment of these countries.
The project is designed to support regional thinking and national action. At present the economic contribution of the fisheries sector is poorly measured; the only performance measures available are catches or values of catches and fish trade data from existing national and regional reporting systems. This indicators are inadequate to measure the benefits received by P-ACPs at the level of the project objective and purpose.
The project will build on the existing data, improve them with new indicators and regional workshops will be held to strengthen the capacity of national statistical administrations to improve measurement of benefits from tuna fisheries.
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