With the ongoing disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic to international travel, training was successfully held online with the countries of Kiribati, The Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
This intensive virtual training was held over a period of 10 days and covered such topics as:
A Virtual training session held in Tuvalu
The aim of this training programme was to provide training experience for participants in safety at sea issues, with reference to issues and scenarios commonly faced by local small scale fishers. Experience gained, along with training materials could be later be used to implement safety training programmes within fisher communities.
Attendees for this training included maritime and fisheries officers, local fishers, and industry representatives.