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FINAL WORKSHOP ON FMIS TO HAND OVER PROJECT’S ACTIVITIES TO INDONESIA 
Concluding workshop on Fish Marketing Information System (FMIS) for Aceh project (GCP/INS/078/SPA) was successfully organized in Banda Aceh on 22nd June 2010. Attended by around 70 representatives from all fisheries stakeholders and relevant government agencies in Aceh as well as officials from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) Jakarta and other provinces, the one-day workshop was to present the activities and achievements of the project, provide recommendations for the Indonesian government to continue the project’s activities and develop FMIS at a national level. In general the project has achieved three things namely: the establishment of web and SMS based fish marketing information system; direct market access for fisheries products from Aceh in the regional markets; improvement of the economic activities of small scale fish processors through product, quality and market development

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