Pelagikos

Pelagikos’ Mission: 

To drive sustainable fisheries, equitable and responsible seafood, marine resource management, and the conservation of marine resources.

Grant Project Goal(s):

To introduce a crew-based observer program on 30 Sri Lankan longline vessels to respond to the problem of inadequate information and data regarding ETP species discarded from Sri Lanka’s longline tuna fishery.

Background:

The catch monitoring system currently in place uses paper logbooks to record information about the target and non-target species caught and landed or discarded. This method is not sufficient for the fishery to pass MSC performance indicators.

Immediate Objective(s):

To train and support fishworkers to record retained and discarded species (including ETP species).

Key Learnings:

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