Neil Palmer
A short film on the success of the Peskas fisheries monitoring system in Timor Leste is now available in six languages – a reflection of efforts to scale up its use in Africa and bring the work to audiences worldwide.
Here’s the English version:
Supported by a number of different partners and funders (see below) since its inception in 2017, Peskas allows users to monitor small-scale fisheries in the SE Asian country in near-real time. Its publicly available online dashboard provides information and analytics on fish catch composition, fishing grounds and more, with the aiming of supporting stakeholder from fishers to policymakers to preserve, restore and regenerate the country’s fisheries.
As you’ll learn in the film, Peskas analyzes and visualizes fisheries data collected by enumerators when fishers come to shore, combining it with data from GPS devices mounted on artisanal fishing boats. Peskas has been used by the government in Timor-Leste as its official fisheries monitoring system since 2020.
The success of Peskas in Timor Leste means it is now being scaled up in Africa, with work underway in Kenya, Zanzibar, Mozambique and Malawi, via the Asia-Africa BlueTech Superhighway project led by WorldFish and funded by UK International Development.