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The long term objective of the EAF-Nansen project is to strengthen regional and country specific efforts to reduce poverty and create conditions to assist in the achievement of food security through development of sustainable fisheries management regimes and specifically through the application of the ecosystem approach to fisheries in a number of developing countries at global level, with an early emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa.
The long term objective would be achieved through the provision of support for the development and country driven application of the conceptual framework of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) through capacity-building, promoting standardized data collection and monitoring, supporting policy development and management practices consistent with EAF principles and contributing to an expanded knowledge base.
The Immediate Objectives of the project are to provide the fisheries research institutions and management administrations in the participating countries with additional knowledge on their ecosystems for their use in planning and monitoring, and to further the acceptance and application of the key principles of the EAF. The key principles are that:
- fisheries should be managed to limit their impact on the ecosystem to an acceptable level;
- ecological relationships between species should be maintained;
- management measures should be compatible across the entire distribution of the resource;
- precaution in decision-making and action is needed because the knowledge on ecosystems is incomplete; and that
- governance should ensure both human and ecosystem well-being and equity.
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