Coastal fisheries observatories

- Recruit a director for the fisheries observatory in New Caledonia
- Design the observatory’s conceptual model (tasks, governance, operations, access to data, etc.)
- Lead working groups to harmonise data collection procedures by local government agencies and set up database management tools                                                                                                                                    - Set up or optimise fisheries data acquisition or multidimensional analysis systems (optimise the BIP BIP database and modernise Stylog, broaden the scope of the Rural Agency’s consumer surveys to cover seafood products, sustainably maintain/extend sales location sampling system (Noumea market and  seafood processing plant in the Loyalty Islands)
- Technical and social feasibility study of data acquisition of currently unreported or under-reported fishing activities
- Implement and strengthen acquisition procedures for unreported or under-reported activities (unreported fishing, sales locations, etc.)
- Create fisheries data banks, analyse and interpret such data and turn over the information to managers. Identify and formally state needs in terms of acquiring knowledge about the resources exploited (Operation 6B.2)
- Make the Observatory sustainable after PROTEGE comes to an end