CESO provides Technical Assistance to the Management Unit of Smartfish II (based in Mauritius) to implement the directives to the mentioned operational program intended to reach the following results:
- Achieve replenishment of stocks of certain species of fish and contribute to the operationalization of management protocols for cross-border fishing activity in the regions concerned;
- Ensure fisheries governance at national and regional levels in selected beneficiary countries;
- Deepening support for selective fisheries governance, for which self-sustaining and cost-effective Monitoring, Control and Security projects have been designed and implemented through an approach based on participatory public-private management and / or community-based management;
- Ensure the improvement of export value chains of fish species;
- In order to add value and contribute to market development, provide for the minimization of post-catch losses in artisanal and commercial fisheries through better storage and better handling.