Somalia’s fisheries story is usually told in terms of potential. But potential is not the same as verified production.

OPONE Maritime Brief No. 04, The Data Behind Somalia’s Fisheries, looks at what Somalia actually knows about its fish, the fishing activity at sea and the condition of its stocks.

The picture is more nuanced than “Somalia has no data.” Historical catch reconstructions, landing-site monitoring, IOTC reporting and the new Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS) are real foundations. But catch records are not stock assessments, and market prices do not tell us whether supply is sustainable.

In this brief we cover:
→ What the existing evidence tells us, and what it doesn’t
→ Why fisheries information is economic infrastructure for investors, processors and fishers
→ A seven-priority roadmap for turning data into fisheries intelligence

A fishery cannot be sustainably managed, responsibly financed or strategically developed if we cannot reliably measure what is being caught, where, by whom, and what remains in the water.

Read the full brief: Maritime Policy Brief 04

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