Fisheries Monitoring and Socioeconomics Division
The Fisheries Monitoring and Socioeconomics Division (FMSD) consists of four distinct programs that conduct a wide variety of fisheries monitoring and research in the Pacific Islands Region and surrounding international waters. FMSD's mission is to provide the best available fisheries-dependent data, fishery reporting, technical support, social and economic research, and advice in support of federal fisheries management in the central and western Pacific. The data collected, processed, compiled, analyzed, and provided by FMSD make up a substantial fraction of the foundational fishery statistics and information needed by fishery scientists and managers in the Pacific Islands Region.