The Project has been active in providing assistance to participating countries for the establishment of a standardised system for the collection of basic data on commercial fisheries, fishing operations and fisheries products as support for resource evaluation and fisheries management. This resulted in the setting up of pilot actions and permanent systems to collect fisheries related information on selected species relevant for national fisheries. Sampling protocols were set together with national experts and yield and fishing effort and socio-economic aspects were monitored through time and used for joint international studies.