Monitoring, Control and Surveillance

Our Policy service provides high level regional and national MCS policy advice to Members.

Some of the key roles under the policy support include:

• Provide Members with high level MCS policy advice to support national fisheries management objectives
• Providing advice for the strategic utilization of regional MCS resources used to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing
• Provide technical and policy support to assist FFA Members to review, develop, update and implement national MCS Plans, National Plan of Actions (NPOAs) and other MCS related policy documents.
• Providing recommendations to FFA’s Executive Management on the effective utilization of the Agency’s MCS resources to support core Regional Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Strategy (RMCSS) implementation actions/activities at the FFA Secretariat and within FFA Members;
• Promoting/participating in capacity building at national and regional levels to improve MCS monitoring and date integration analysis.
• Coordinating Fisheries Operations’ implementation of the FFA Strategic Plan and the FFA Business Plan.