Report of the Second Working Party on Fisheries Data and Statistics: South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission, Mombasa, Kenya, 28-30 April 2008

The Working Party received updates of the status of monitoring of the fishery catches by the member countries of the Commission. Some countries were upgrading their systems, others continued with existing systems that operated satisfactorily. They discussed minimum data requirements for effective fisheries management in three artisanal fishery types: tuna, shark and small pelagic fisheries.