The main objectives of the project were to evaluate the present status of the fishenes in Sierra Leone and to make recommendations of possible management strategies in the light of the priontv proclaimed by the Government of Sierra Leone to give preference to local fisheries, particular artisanal and semi-industrial, over foreign fisheries. Further, the project was to device a permanent system of fisheries data collection and to train Sierra Leonean personnel in the handling of computerized fisheries database systems.