A team of 12 Field Staff and Associated Members of COREMAP (Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project) Indonesia along with the COREMAP AUSAID Training Coordinator (Mr Robert Kingham) and a Consultant (Ms Melody Kemp) visited BOBP-IGO on an eight-day study tour.
The team visited Chennai and Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh), to study and interact with fisher groups in India on safety, survival and policy and social issues in small-scale fisheries. The exposure inter alia included machine safety, working with stakeholders to plan for safety, government responsibilities for fishing safety, etc.