Fisheries resources within the Indian Ocean region are critical to IORA Member States and therefore require joint management measures and actions such as harmonization of Policies and Legislations, MSC Strategies, joint surveillance, data collection, environmental monitoring, research on fisheries population dynamics, biodiversity, reproduction, genetics fish stock assessment, exchange of harvesting technologies, fish processing and marketing, information/data, socio-economic studies among others.
The IORA Workshop on Development of a Regional Strategy to Address the Sustainable Management and Development of Fisheries Resources in the Indian Ocean Rim Region was held in Zanzibar, the United Republic of Tanzania from 30-31 October 2017.