The immediate objectives of the Project address the two root causes of the threats to the sustainability of use of the region’s oceanic fish resources identified in the SAP:
The Information and Knowledge Objective
to improve understanding of the transboundary oceanic fish resources and related features of the Western and Central Pacific Warm Pool Large Marine Ecosystem
The Governance Objective
to create new regional institutional arrangements, and reform, realign and strengthen national arrangements for conservation and management of transboundary oceanic fishery resources.
The structure of the Project is designed to address these two objectives through two major technical components. A third component will provide services necessary for effective implementation as follows.