This third Strategic Plan sets out the Organisation’s Policy priorities, goals, strategic and functional objectives and programmes for 2022 to 2030 and includes a wide range of topics and technical aspects aiming at creating profitable and sustainable fisheries, including: data and science, resource management and conservation, marine spatial planning and marine managed areas; legal and regulatory reforms; illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing elimination; climate change, ocean acidification and disaster risk management; sanitary and phytosanitary systems and trade in fish and fishery products; capacity building and technology transfer; adequate, accessible and affordable supply of fish and seafood to support food and nutrition security and healthy life styles of the people of the region; rebuilding and strengthening the fisheries and economic sectors after the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic; enhancement of blue economic growth. The Strategic Plan defines four strategic goals: 1) sustainable use and management of fisheries and aquaculture resources; 2) improvement of the welfare and sustainable livelihoods of fishing and aquaculture communities; 3) sufficient, safe, and nutritious fish and seafood to meet the dietary requirements for an active and healthy life; 4) development of a regional fishery sector resilient to climate change, ocean acidification, natural disasters, external shocks and its enhancement through comprehensive disaster risk management. The Strategic Plan provides also for a functional goal: implement good governance practices for the organisation and supporting implementation of a results-oriented management philosophy, approaches, and tools. In order to achieve these goals, the Plan specifies related objectives: economic models for types of aquaculture operations to improve food production; monitoring, control and surveillance systems and frameworks to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and organised crime in the fisheries sector; profitable fisheries and marine resources development within the blue economic space of each member state; capacity building and institutional strengthening in both public and private sector; safe consumption and improved access to nutritions fish and seafood.
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