Fisheries Monitoring Branch

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