Group photo of participants including FCWC MCS staff and TMT Trainer
The Regional Monitoring Control and Surveillance Centre (RMCSC) of the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) is holding a week-long capacity building exchange training for two Nigerian Fisheries Monitoring Centre (FMC) personnel from 12-16 August 2024.
The exchange training is in response to a request by Nigeria’s Federal Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (FDFA) of the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy (MMBE) for support in the development of its FMC operators’ capacities after an FMC assessment was conducted in March 2024.
The aim of the training is to equip the operators to better utilize the Seasight vessel monitoring application and the Vessel Viewer application; to update or introduce routines to improve their national FMC operations, and to improve their ability to generate intelligence and analysis to support patrol operations.
The FMC Operators are being trained on the various Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) systems, best practices in tracking and monitoring of vessels, analyses and interpretation of data (e.g. pattern and activity identification).
This exchange training activity is in line with Intervention Area 2 of the FCWC’s Strategic Action Plan 2021-2030 – consolidation and extension of the achievements of sub-regional cooperation in the fight against IUU fishing and maritime safety.
