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One activity that UNU-FTP is managing as part of Iceland’s contribution to West Africa fisheries development cooperation is the VMS data analyses project.
Throughout costal Africa so called vessel monitoring systems (VMS) are already operational, complemented by automated identification systems (AIS) at one level or another.
Currently countries like Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been trying to harness these new techniques to combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and strengthen overall Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) capabilities.
In light of this it was decided UNU-FTP could contribute by providing training for specialists in these three countries in the analyses of VMS-data.
The bulk of this project was carried out in 2018, when two sets of workshops were conducted: A reginal one in Freetown in May (with 13 sponsored participants from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone and 11 others partisipants from Sierra leone); and in-country workshops at VMS-centers in Liberia and Sierra Leone half a year later.
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