Conference Vision:

To develop, promote and enhance effective fishery monitoring programs to ensure sustainable resource management throughout the world's oceans.

Conference Mission:

To improve fishery monitoring programs worldwide through sharing of practices and development of new methods of data collection and analysis. To provide a forum for dialog between those responsible for monitoring fisheries and those who rely upon the data they collect.

Conference Goals:

To be considered successful, the 2009 IFOMC will:

• Improve the quality of fishery monitoring data through sharing of best practices for collection and analysis of information.
• Improve the use of fishery monitoring data to support sustainable resource management.
• Promote the international exchange of ideas and best practices from fishery monitoring programs throughout the world.
• Improve accessibility to fishery monitoring data.
• Support the development of new innovative data collection methods.
• Improve the training and safety of at-sea fisheries observers.
• Advance the development of the observer profession.