World-first monitoring system for small-scale fisheries adopted by the Timor-Leste government at a national scale

Published on: April 30, 2021, Submitted by Cristiano Rossignoli on: March 23, 2021, Reporting year: 2020

Sustainable Development Goals Contribution

PeskAAS Small-scale fisheries monitoring system, designed and established through a number of WorldFish led project, has now been fully adopted by government as their national fisheries monitoring platform.

A local diver dives to inspect the FAD rope and fixtures.

PeskAAS—a pseudo-acronym for fisheries (peskas) in the national language of Timor-Leste, Tetum, combined with Automated Analytics System. PeskAAS connects open source programs to collect, communicate, analyse and visualise SSF movement and catch data.The system, which has previously been donor-funded and supported by private company PDS (providing tracking units) has been fully adopted by government, with them paying salaries of 13 full time field enumerators, and taking up the commercial contract with the PDS. In 2021 Timor-Leste will report their annual fisheries statistics to FAOs global database using outputs from the PeskAAS system.

Disaggregates for Sphere of Influence

  • 1.3.2 - Increased livelihood opportunities

  • D.1.4 - Increased capacity for innovation in partner development organizations and in poor and vulnerable communities

Focus

  • Capacity Development & Knowledge Sharing: 1 - Significant objective

Specific Disaggregates for this Policy Indicator

  • Policy/Investment Type: Policy or Strategy

  • Whose policy is fixed? Public Sector

  • Stage of Maturity: Level 3 - Evidence of impact on people and/or natural environment of the changed policy or investment

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Linked Outcome/Impact Case Report (OICR)

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Acknowledgement

This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) led by WorldFish. Funding support for this work was initially provided by  the Norwegian-funded Fisheries Sector Support Program. Additional funding to support extensive consultation processes was sourced from the Asian Development Bank. The project is a partnership between WorldFish Timor-Leste, the Directorate General of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, and fisheries resource owners and stakeholders. 

 

 

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Keywords

data fisheries monitoring system small-scale

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About the author

Alexander Tilley is at WorldFish - WF.