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Seychelles launched its Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS), aimed at improving access to fisheries information, in terms of accessibility, availability, and timeliness.
Seychelles launched its Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS), aimed at improving access to fisheries information, in terms of accessibility, availability, and timeliness.
Data is a vital component of any modern public administration system; this is especially true in the fisheries sector. Accurate and timely information is essential for effective decision-making and management of fisheries resources. This is where systems such as the FIMS come to the aid, stated Seychelles Minister for Fisheries and the Blue Economy, Jean-Francois Ferrari.
FIMS will ensure that Seychelles fisheries resources are managed in a sustainable and responsible manner and that the interests of all stakeholders are taken into account. It will also help to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of fisheries management practices, reducing waste, increasing productivity, and promoting the long-term viability of the fisheries sector. Ferrari added that such a system will provide an integrated platform for collecting, analysing, and disseminating fisheries data, covering everything from fish stock assessments to monitoring fishing activities and managing fishing quotas.
The system will also facilitate the exchange of fisheries data and information within the Authority, with its partners and the public. Financed by the SWIOFISH3 programme, a long-term regional programme of the World Bank for sustainable marine fisheries, FIMS was developed by TraSeable Solutions, a Fiji-based company. The FIMS collates and integrates SFA fisheries data in a single digital platform for us to extract and for all stakeholders to access. FIMS system is hosted internally at SFA with a standby server in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
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The entities that will have data access externally include the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and the Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA). They will have restricted access to FIMS data based on official requests. The need to make available information in Seychelles’ fisheries industry more accessible and transfer it to the public in layman’s terms as outlined in the Seychelles 2021 Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) report. FiTI said that will allow the information to be used in managing fisheries efficiently and sustainably. Fisheries is the second top economic contributor for Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean.
